Hi scott, I think the istructions are wrong, someone at the workshop here at makeart had the same problem. On the wiki it was refering to hda not sda which I changed, there are no hda devices in recent p;d.
Apart from that though it seems that grub will not install on ntfs so the insructions are totally erong and misleading. Unless someone has done it before here? There seem to be some tools that enable grun to be install on ntfs grub2dos https://gna.org/projects/grub4dos/ would be nice to sort this out, so testers are more than welcome, I will too if I get time and access to a win box a I didnt have any luck installing on that computer although Scott Cazan said : > Hello all, > > I was wondering if someone could help me out with this problem. I'm > trying to get a dual boot Windows/Linux install and am following the > instructions: > > sudo su > mkdir /media/hda1/boot > grub-install --root-directory=/media/sda1 /dev/sda > cp /live/image/extra/grub/menu.lst /media/sda1/boot/grub > > but get an error almost every step of the way (except the first). > > Here are my steps and errors: > I get "cannot create directory '/media/hda1/boot': No such file or > directory" so I make the hda1 directory under /media/ then create the > boot directory under that to be able to move on. > > Then "grub-install --root-directory=/media/sda1 /dev/sda" gives me > "error: cannot find a device for /media/sda1. error: cannot find a > device for /media/sda1/boot/." > > Alternatively I tried this: > Since my hard drive is sda1 (not hda1) I tried creating the boot > directory under /media/sda1/ but that doesn't work either. > > And a last bit of info. My windows C:\ is on an NTFS partition and > after copying the live folder into the C:\ root and booting Pure:Dyne > I can't get a directory listing on /dev/sda1. I can, however, see that > file system under /live/image/. Don't know if that matters. > > Anyone know whats going on here? I'm just trying to install grub > basically. I'm using the latest leek & potato release (tried miso as > well). > > Thanks! > Scott > > --- > [email protected] > irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne > | |'`'. .''. .. | ' .' '. .` '. |-----`.----.'------- '------------. | '..' `. ' | `..' | --- [email protected] irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne
