From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LOHQi-0004p8-GS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:06:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B589E007E; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:06:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f21.google.com (mail-ew0-f21.google.com [209.85.219.21]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D657AE007E for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:06:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy14 with SMTP id 14so74617ewy.10 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:06:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=/YF/DBHof2mO6i5hDbKcmzaXEyDOvxhRcaXmKEX4cpE=; b=biAp0YEQmdqidG6niW7VROKAEFbF9LpuaOOkTw8QGepSulqFMX9hZvmhcZevSF+3nY ewC3kKXBQ+9Wy3BrS4DsuXlL73XRRYGvEA09MNZ+2LvjSoCWU0RffQJZ3xQDp7HAgcxj KwPLLDnP2k8/bNpA/W1RcrxFNRA6MOTlkRyi8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=TDAR2PU1jbzdlRFKJ97mN85ZNNWe2WfjmgjONwK5jGCE++PszP22wumI/IBhPjZgM/ VOd1S1CSSpUmL0XaXmGXoEAnVX9AvEGehgA1oqobf9X1P7KuhxG0vMK9ZJoN+w7xRuP1 E+JKVd597Uzz8XhRsOOKSEDfacCrtucEhNykA= Received: by 10.210.66.13 with SMTP id o13mr501065eba.124.1232222762296; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:06:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy.study (the3mountains.plus.com [212.159.46.48]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b30sm4735093ika.0.2009.01.17.12.06.01 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:06:01 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub Error 21: Selected disk does not exist Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:05:47 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2689837.MyDPWcFIFU"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200901172006.00160.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: f2ddb014-3ecc-4f71-a37e-3c95c81a7141 X-Archives-Hash: 373f95d453a25e08466428c82e11f590 --nextPart2689837.MyDPWcFIFU Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 17 January 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: > I just did an install onto a machine with a single internal IDE > hard drive. hda1 is Win2K (NTFS), hda2 is swap, hda3 is Gentoo > root (ext3). > > 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 > > I tried hd0,hd1,hd2,hd3 with various paritions from 0 to 2 and > always got an Error 21. The drive is recognized correctly by > the BIOS, and Win2K boots and runs fine. I rebooted and > chroot'ed several times and always got Error 21. > > So, I downloaded a Grub CD from http://www.supergrubdisk.org/. > The grub on the CD recognized the disk and all partitions > correctly and installed just fine using the normal procedure: > > root (hd0,2) > setup (hd0) > > I rebooted, and everything works great. > > Any ideas on why grub couldn't see any hard drives when it was > run from the 2008.0 minimal install CD's chroot'ed environment? > I've done dozens of Gentoo installs, and I've never seen this > problem before. Did you try tab completion at: grub> root ( <--tab Had you chrooted properly at the time and could you see the grub fs=20 under /boot/grub ?. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2689837.MyDPWcFIFU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAklyOigACgkQ5Fp0QerLYPc4RwCfZbX3cjVr3DLRO7eX8RQFroUD N/4An0RWK4QmW+NnIEUSZ6Vff6oKwFJW =bs28 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2689837.MyDPWcFIFU--