I just installed grub 1.96+20090307-1 on Debian unstable and managed to get:
grub-setup "(hd0)"
to run, but the fact that one needs to run grub-setup in that way in
order to install the latest version of grub on the boot media still
isn't documented, and I can't figure out how to run grub-probe based on
the current manual page and documentation.
My setup is:
/boot/grub/device.map:
(hd0) /dev/hda
(hd1) /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SIBM_DCAS-34330W_F3T92021
file systems as reported by mount:
/dev/hda5 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /victoriac type vfat (rw,uid=65534,gid=65534,umask=000)
/dev/sdb1 on /scsic type vfat (rw,uid=65534,gid=65534,umask=000)
/dev/sda on /mnt/usb8gig type vfat
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,uid=65534,gid=65534,umask=000,shortname=win95)
/dev/hda3 on /mirror3 type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/hda7 on /victoriad type vfat (rw,uid=65534,gid=65534,umask=000)
/dev/sdb5 on /scsid type vfat (rw,uid=65534,gid=65534,umask=000)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
So my Linux root partition is on /dev/hda5
I would like to have a grub menu entry to attempt booting off the USB
drive as this machine is too old to support booting directly off USB.
I have also not been successful on booting from /dev/sdb1 (Win95) unless
I change the BIOS to boot from SCSI, and even to do that, I had to mark
the FAT partitions on /dev/hda "hidden".
Any suggestions welcome.
Arthur.
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