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On Saturday 17 January 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> I just did an install onto a machine with a single internal IDE |
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> hard drive. hda1 is Win2K (NTFS), hda2 is swap, hda3 is Gentoo |
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> root (ext3). |
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> I was following the "quick install" doc, and everything went |
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> fine until I got to the section on installing grub. After |
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> emerging grub, the "root" command failed: |
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> grub> root (hd0,2) |
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> Error 21: Selected disk does not exist |
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> I tried hd0,hd1,hd2,hd3 with various paritions from 0 to 2 and |
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> always got an Error 21. The drive is recognized correctly by |
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> the BIOS, and Win2K boots and runs fine. I rebooted and |
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> chroot'ed several times and always got Error 21. |
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> So, I downloaded a Grub CD from http://www.supergrubdisk.org/. |
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> The grub on the CD recognized the disk and all partitions |
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> correctly and installed just fine using the normal procedure: |
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> root (hd0,2) |
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> setup (hd0) |
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> I rebooted, and everything works great. |
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> Any ideas on why grub couldn't see any hard drives when it was |
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> run from the 2008.0 minimal install CD's chroot'ed environment? |
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> I've done dozens of Gentoo installs, and I've never seen this |
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> problem before. |
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Did you try tab completion at: |
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grub> root ( <--tab |
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Had you chrooted properly at the time and could you see the grub fs |
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under /boot/grub ?. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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