From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H3uon-0003AP-Jq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:45:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l08DfkJh030024; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 13:41:46 GMT Received: from smtp1.iway.na (smtp1.iway.na [196.44.136.15]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l08DbF3x021289 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 13:37:19 GMT Received: from vscan.iway.na (vscan.iway.na [196.44.136.13]) by smtp1.iway.na (Postfix) with ESMTP id 241B864A7 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 15:37:12 +0200 (WAST) Received: from mx2.iway.na (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vscan.iway.na (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88610A1EB3 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 15:37:12 +0200 (WAST) Received: from uwix.alt.na ([196.44.156.173]) by mx2.iway.na (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id JBJXU002.P4X for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 15:37:12 +0200 Received: from uwe by uwix.alt.na with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H3ubG-0000y2-Fg for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:31:42 +0200 From: Uwe Thiem Organization: SysEx (Pty) Ltd. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] grub-install vs. manual install Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 15:31:42 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701081531.42424.uwix@iway.na> Sender: Uwe Thiem X-Archives-Salt: c4260bdd-3202-4055-bf06-4db280dea666 X-Archives-Hash: 1faf848923c93667100016b4dd8628c0 Hi folks, I have just been bitten by this and bring it up here so others don't need to fall into the same pit. If you want (or are forced) to have /boot and your MBR on different harddrives (*not* partitions) invoke grub and do the manual install as described in the handbook rather than use grub-install which simply assumes they are on the same drive. Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 Proof of concept of a TSP solver for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/epat-0.1.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list