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 1LOJDD-00021k-6Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:00:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6DDD6E0390; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:00:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39F26E03B5 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:00:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9CCE64620 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:00:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.361 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.361 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.238, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id nj-SHsUo4TOo for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:00:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95C8264518 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:00:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LOJD0-0002ha-UO for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:00:02 +0000 Received: from 67-220-10-117.usiwireless.com ([67.220.10.117]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:00:02 +0000 Received: from grante by 67-220-10-117.usiwireless.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:00:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub Error 21: Selected disk does not exist Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:59:07 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200901172006.00160.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67-220-10-117.usiwireless.com User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Linux) Sender: news 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 X-Archives-Salt: c9a42183-6c8f-45dd-bc68-1b224d67e05f X-Archives-Hash: 07ce93448bab2b3862009e7cfbf4550a On 2009-01-17, Mick 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