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From: Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: Grub Error 21: Selected disk does not exist
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:59:07 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <gktkbb$a98$2@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200901172006.00160.michaelkintzios@gmail.com

On 2009-01-17, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 17 January 2009, Grant Edwards wrote:

>>   grub> root (hd0,2)
>>
>>   Error 21: Selected disk does not exist

> Did you try tab completion at:
>
> grub> root (     <--tab

Nope, I didn't know about tab completion.  And now that I've
got grub installed and Gentoo is booted, it's working fine.  I
think something was broken in /dev

> Had you chrooted properly at the time and could you see the grub fs 
> under /boot/grub ?.

I cut/pasted the commands from the quick install guide to do
the chroot.  And I rebooted and chroot'ed twice just to make
sure.

-- 
Grant





  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-17 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-17 17:31 [gentoo-user] Grub Error 21: Selected disk does not exist Grant Edwards
2009-01-17 20:05 ` Mick
2009-01-17 21:59   ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2009-01-17 20:29 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2009-01-17 21:56   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2009-01-18 11:47     ` Mick

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