Arve Barsnes <arve.bars...@gmail.com> writes: > On 10 July 2017 at 22:06, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > >> grub-install /dev/sda Installing for i386-pc platform. >> grub-install: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1. Check >> your device.map. >> >> Where might I find `device.map'... it isn't part of grub2. At least >> grep doesn't find it with `qlist grub' >> > > As far as I understand it, grub2 will dynamically create the device.map > when it needs it, so it doesn't actually exist as a file. On my grub legacy > system it is installed as /boot/grub/device.map, with the only contents > being "(hd0) /dev/sda". > > How you would feed grub this information *before* it is installed I'm not > sure, but maybe look into the USE=device-mapper flag, maybe it installs the > grub-mkdevicemap executable.
Yeah, I tried that before posting.. setting USE=device-mapper then reinstalled grub2... same result as without the flag. Same error message. I've always .. on many installs (over time) and mostly into a vbox vm, created a disk, then when booting the install media I carve it up with fdisk. /dev/sda1=boot /dev/sda2=swap /dev/sda3=home /dev/sda4=/ Has something changed regarding using that kind of technique? I can't figure out why grub would be looking for a GRUB drive on /dev/sda1 as the error says: grub-install: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1
