Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 22:33:13
Message-Id: 540A3A18.5010606@iinet.net.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device by Joseph
1 On 06/09/14 06:07, Joseph wrote:
2 > On 09/05/14 22:06, Neil Bothwick wrote:
3 >> On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 13:54:07 -0600, Joseph wrote:
4 >>
5 >>> >> I don't need to format sda1, grub2-install should take care of it.
6 >>> >> So what am I doing wrong?
7 >>> >
8
9 Something I have not seen so far is do you have a device.map file?
10
11 (Make sure that you have /boot mounted.)
12
13 olympus ~ # cat /boot/grub/device.map
14 (hd0) /dev/sda
15 (hd1) /dev/sdb
16 (hd2) /dev/hdc
17 (hd3) /dev/sdd
18 olympus ~ #
19
20 I have two ssd's (hd3/sdd boot and system in the one above) and couldn't
21 get the mapping right until this was set correctly as grub always got it
22 wrong when left to itself but only with the SSD's, normal HDD's were fine.
23
24 BillK