Public bug reported: I installed Feisty Fawn Herd-2. All went ok, but when I tried to install GRUB to the root partition of the installation (/dev/hda11) I got the following error message: grub-install /dev/sda11
/dev/sda11 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. The system has a PATA Disk, but due to Kernel 2.6.20 the disk naming scheme is like SCSI or SATA devices (sdx instead of hdx). Also the old naming scheme doesn't work: grub-install /dev/hda11 /dev/hda11: Not found or not a block device. Now I found a fix for this in this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=233540 There was the hint to /boot/grub/device.map and in this file there still was the old naming convention used: (hd0) /dev/hda so I changed this to (hd0) /dev/sda and know the installation of grub works fine: grub-install /dev/sda11 Installation finished. No error reported. This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map. Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'. (hd0) /dev/sda ** Affects: Ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- Error when installing grub https://launchpad.net/bugs/80661 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
