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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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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