[gentoo-user] Re: another grub problem

[Allan Gottlieb]

At Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:02:08 -0400 Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> 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   <TAB>
>      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
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