On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 02:10:31PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I just adore the install. Esp. of GRUB. > > Does *anyone* who works on GRUB actually work in the real world, and not > only on brand new machines? > > I just had happen at work what happened last fall on my home system: then, > I had /dev/hda, and was trying a clean install on a new SATA drive; right > now, I'm installing on a replacement disk on a server that has no CD/DVD > drive from a USB key. My options: on my home system, it was MRR on > /dev/hda (which was being replaced, and was to become my backup drive), > and here, in the MBR of the USB key; in both cases, *only* in the first > sector of a partition on the new drive. I am NEVER OFFERED THE OPTION of > the MBR of the drive I'm installing to. > > *snarl* > > mark "no grub, then linux rescue, then chcon, then grub install... > I hope"
Try `grub-install --root-directory=/path/to/your/new/system /dev/hda' (if there is on hda). -- Dominik Zyla
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