I just spent some time haggling with grub while in red hat rescue mode. I had installed Windows on a new partion, which of course broke grub. So I booted into rescue mode, and tried to run grub-install to get things back in order. Unfortunately, I kept getting an error that /dev/root did not exist, despite the fact that I was trying to install on /dev/hda or (hd0).
I finally tracked it down to a routine in grub-install that was calling "df /" to find the device for the root file system. In linux rescue mode, this is /dev/root, which apparently doesn't really exist. I removed the df and simply hard-coded the device to /dev/hda, and all was well. I'd suggest that rescue mode is one of the times when you need grub to work the most! I hope that future version of grub will work in this scenario. Thanks for all the work so far! _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
