Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <[email protected]> writes: >> 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 > > > Did you mount /boot from inside the chroot environment? IIRC I got a > similar failure when mounting /boot from outside the chroot...
Egad, that is almost certainly what is going on. However, before seeing your post I came up with what I thought might be a way to get around the whole problem presented in the errors. I preserved my install on the initial disk created in vbox for the install. Shutdown the vbox vm, created a set of new disks but this time using whole disks rather than carving up partitions. So instead of 1 disk carved up... I now had 4 disks in the same sizes as the original partitions. Booted the install media.. copied the installed OS over to the new disks. But this time I was asking grub to intall itself on a disk with a single whole disk partition. It all worked, ... but I think now, after your comment, I probably mounted boot in the proscribed way this time around. That is, from inside a chrooted terminal. Probably didn't need all the disk switching and copying at all. Thanks for your input... I'll know not to think I remember all about how to do this and pay more attention to the install instructions. Even though I have done this quite a few times... its usually been separated by along enough time period that I might will have forgotten some of the necessary steps. Thanks again for taking time to post your thoughts.
