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 1KFgGN-0003M8-UV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:15:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E653EE01C2; Mon, 7 Jul 2008 02:15:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.80.33]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB05CE01C2 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2008 02:15:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-4578d8f8.dyn.optonline.net [69.120.216.248]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m672FXqG022483 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 22:15:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id 28A1819D92F; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 22:15:18 -0400 (EDT) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: another grub problem References: From: Allan Gottlieb Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:15:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Allan Gottlieb's message of "Sun\, 06 Jul 2008 20\:02\:08 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: b6faf9d1-5ebb-443d-b240-6d5b12f2e526 X-Archives-Hash: 67bbe89a116ccbd049f8309b94387168 At Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:02:08 -0400 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > The newest update of grub from 0.97-r5 to 0.97-r6 contained the > > *** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install > the new version's stage1 to your MBR. Until you do, > stage1 and stage2 will still be the old version, but > later stages will be the new version, which could > cause problems such as an unbootable system. > > Since this is only a change in the -r, I suspect that it is not > necessary to reinstall stage1, but I tried anyway and had trouble. > Since I thought I repeated steps that worked before, I am asking for > help/explanations. > > I run grub and then the following dialog. > > GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 7168K upper memory) > > [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first > word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB > lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] > > grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 > (hd0,2) > > As expected hd0 is the disk > > grub> setup (hd > 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? I have now downloaded the 2008.0 livecd. I booted from it and ran grub. Again the find returns (hd0,2) and alas the setup (hd0) returns the same error message. allan -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list