GRUB not written to MBR - rewrite problem

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Wed Jan 25 23:00:10 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 18:24 -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"

What do /boot/grub/grub.conf and /boot/grub/device.map say?

Can you show us what your partition setup looks like?

-- 
  Peter




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