GRUB not written to MBR - rewrite problem

[Paul Dickson]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:24:37 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:

> On installation, GRUB was supposed to be written to the MBR, but it didn't 
> happen. FC5t2 is installed on an external USB drive, connected to my HP 
> Pavilion Laptop. I've run several Linux distros this way, so I know it can 
> work. I booted into rescue (I also tried "linux expert rescue"), but after I 
> "chroot /mnt/sysimage" and type "grub-install /dev/hda" I get the following:
> 
> "/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive"
> 
> Can anyone suggest something? I get the same message if I try to write GRUB 
> to /dev/sda by the way...

Within grub, you can use the root command and tab-completion to figure
out which drives to access.

I use:
    /sbin/grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/card '(hd1)'
to write the boot block to a CF card, but I haven't used it recently so I
don't know whether or not grub has any bugs in FC5.

	-Paul