This sounds related to what Barry mentioned about the device.mapI just tried "grub-install /dev/hda", but no luck. It gave me the error "/dev/hdb1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive". The only thing I can think of is that this is somehow related to the fact that I have a SATA drive on my system. I'm a crazy geek who has 4 hard drives running, 3 IDE and 1 SATA. Both Windows and Fedora are on IDE drives though, so I'm not sure whats going on.
cat /boot/grub/device.map
puts out this information on my single disk laptop. What does the device.map file contain on your system.
cat /boot/grub/device.map
# this device map was generated by anaconda
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hda
What does fdisk -l output? fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 2111 16956576 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 2112 2124 104422+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 2125 3399 10241437+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 3400 4864 11767612+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 3400 4674 10241406 83 Linux /dev/hda6 4675 4805 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda7 4806 4864 473886 b W95 FAT32
I'm sure that with 3 IDE disks and the SATA, it should confuse anaconda a bit. Grub.conf would also give clues as to what failed to recognize the setup you have.
Jim
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