On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:02:08 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 > (hd0,2) > > As expected hd0 is the disk
You should now run "root (hd0,2)" > 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? GRUB can't find its files because you haven't told it which partition contains them. Only the stage1 goes into the MBR, along with a pointer to the partition that contains everything else. -- Neil Bothwick Q. How do you identify a blind man in a nudist colony? A. It's not hard.
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