On 2009-01-17, Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-...@laposte.net> wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 05:31:22PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I was following the "quick install" doc, and everything went >> fine until I got to the section on installing grub. After >> emerging grub, the "root" command failed: >> >> grub> root (hd0,2) >> >> Error 21: Selected disk does not exist > > Did you try it on a chroot system?
Yes, that was in the chroot'ed system. > If so, did you have access on /dev /proc and /sys inside the > chroot? I thought so. Everything else seemed to work. I definitely checked to make sure /proc was mounted -- I cut/pasted the commands from the quick-install web page (changing sda to hda). But, now that you mention it, something in /dev was wrong because the first time I booted Gentoo off hda2, the "issue" message that's displayed before the login prompt gave instructions on how to fix /dev. I never figured out what exactly was wrong, but following the instructions fixed it. It took me a while to get to that point since I tripped over the grub bug that displays a blank menu and then corrupts the console. Apparently there's something wrong with the splash.xpm.gz file, and you have to comment out the splashcreen line in menu.lst. -- Grant
