On Tuesday 22 December 2009 04:59:02 Grant wrote: > > I'll report back with Puppy Linux results. > > Puppy Linux has wiped the HD and installed to /dev/sda3, but I can't > get it to install GRUB to /dev/sda1. I get: > > I couldn't mount '/dev/sda1' read-write! > > Working on it....
You cannot install grub to /dev/sda1 and expect it to work - that is a partition, not a device. Grub goes into the MBR of the device, and the various stage 1.5 and stage 2 support files are put into /boot/grub/. The install app can find those dirs just fine as it is a Linux app running on a full mounted Linux system. But, it has no clue which MBR you want to be used: grub-install /dev/sda If you need grub installed on some other device (not the current machine's own boot drive), then mount that drive's /boot somewhere and do something like this grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/<device> -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
