On Thu, September 28, 2006 3:37 pm, Felix Miata wrote:
On 06/09/28 15:07 (GMT-0700) PerfectReign apparently typed:
On Thu, September 28, 2006 1:50 pm, clarkt@cnsp.com wrote:
You can reinstall grub by doing the following: 1) boot the install cd and select installation 2) when you get to the language screen, do alt+cntrl+f5 (takes you to a text screen) 3) mount /dev/hdax /mnt (where x is the number of the root partition)
Minor change for the newbies like me: mount /dev/sdax /mnt.
At least that's what worked for me. :)
That would be because your system has SATA instead of PATA HDs. It really gripes me that 2.6 kernels insist SATA devices are SCSI devices.
Are they even serial? I've had tons of experience in the '90s with setting up all sorts of SCSI raids and connectors to things like optical jukeboxes under NT or OS/2 and always thought SCSI was a world onto itself. <snip>
Googling that, told me to run: # grub-install --recheck /dev/sda
This ran about a minute then I got the message, "The file /boot/grub/stage1 does not read correctly."
Probably same problem. Check the contents of /boot/grub/device.map to find out what Grub thinks is the correct device.
According to /boot/grub/device.map I have: /boot/grub # less device.map (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/sda That would seem correct, right? I get the message again, "The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly." -- Kai Ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request