installing grub fails

[Rick Stevens]

Oops!  Hit "Send" too soon.  Please ignore my previous post.

Telmo Silva wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Don't know if it works has I've not tryed it. I think grub renames the 
> partitions, so hda in grub is labeled as hd0. So try with hd0 as the 
> parameter.

Bottom post, guys, please!

grub-install uses Linux device names (/dev/hda, etc.), NOT BIOS names
(hd0,0).  grub uses BIOS names internally.

> Em Quinta 22 Janeiro 2004 18:37, o Diosnel Herrnsdorf escreveu:
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>>On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 14:27, Linux4life wrote:
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>>>Hi,
>>>running the command
>>>
>>>grub-install /dev/hda
>>>
>>>fails and prints an error message
>>>
>>>/dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS ...
>>>
>>>Does anyone know what is wrong?
>>>Thanks,
>>>Ivo
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>>Try /dev/hda1 (your hard disk has at least two partitions and you need
>>to tell the program in which one you want to install it)

No, that will install it to the partition, not the MBR.

The error message indicates that the BIOS doesn't know about the drive.
This IS an IDE drive, isn't it?  We'd need to see your drive layout to
better answer this.
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