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Installing from install-amd64-minimal-20170706.iso into vbox vm |
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I've done this many times and never saw this grub error: |
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Attempting to run grub-install /dev/sda I get: |
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grub-install /dev/sda Installing for i386-pc platform. |
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grub-install: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1. Check |
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your device.map. |
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When I started googling I find hits all of which are involved with efi |
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drives. |
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I don't really even know for sure what an `efi' drive is and certainly |
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never had any dealings with it when installing gentoo in a vbox vm. |
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(Even after googling efi ... still didn't really understand what it |
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is. Other than what it stands for. wikipaedia talks about a fat file |
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system being involved... .. all news to me) |
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I found something even more curious... I tried unmounting boot |
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(dev/sda1) and recreating the ext2 file system. |
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I left the computer for a bit, and when I came back I forgot I had |
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not remounted boot, and ran `grub-install /dev/sda' again with /dev/sda1 |
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unmounted. |
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It ran with no errors and created a grub directory on / (/dev/sda4) |
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I don't understand why grub is looking for a GRUB drive on /dev/sda1 |
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when I asked it to install on /dev/sda |
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The error tells me to check `device.map'. But gives no clue where it |
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might be found. |
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Where might I find `device.map'... it isn't part of grub2. At least |
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grep doesn't find it with `qlist grub' |
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Near as I can tell I've done things ... so far in the same way I have |
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before several times... probably within 4 to 6 mnths. So I may be |
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forgetting something important... but I know I have never run across |
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this error before. |
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And I have followed the handbook at least mostly. |
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