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.