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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] another grub problem
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 08:46:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080707084634.32b81682@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yu9fxqmmuin.fsf@nyu.edu>

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On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:02:08 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote:

>     grub> find /boot/grub/stage1  
>      (hd0,2)
> 
> As expected hd0 is the disk

You should now run "root (hd0,2)"

>     grub> setup (hd   <TAB>  
>      Possible disks are:  hd0 hd1
> 
> Again confirming that hd0 is a valid disk (as is hd1, but that is an
> external scsi that does not contain stage1)
> 
> But now comes the problem.  (I want grub in the MBR.)
> 
>     grub> setup (hd0)  
> 
>     Error 12: Invalid device requested
> 
> What is wrong?

GRUB can't find its files because you haven't told it which partition
contains them. Only the stage1 goes into the MBR, along with a pointer to
the partition that contains everything else.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Q. How do you identify a blind man in a nudist colony?
A. It's not hard.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-07  7:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-07  0:02 [gentoo-user] another grub problem Allan Gottlieb
2008-07-07  2:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Allan Gottlieb
2008-07-07 15:23   ` [gentoo-user] Re: another grub problem: SOLVED Allan Gottlieb
2008-07-07  6:47 ` [gentoo-user] another grub problem Sebastian Günther
2008-07-07  7:46 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]

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