On 6/14/05, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >I 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. > > > > > > > This sounds related to what Barry mentioned about the device.map > 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 > > -- > Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right. :-) > -- Larry Wall in <199710211959.MAA18990@xxxxxxxx> > Ok I looked at both device.map and fdisk -l. For device.map I came up with: (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/hda (hd1) /dev/hdb (hd2) /dev/hdg and for fdisk -l I came up with: Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System /dev/hda1 * 1 14946 120053713+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hdb1 * 1 13 1049391 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 14 14946 119949322+ 8e Linux /dev/hdg1 * 1 19457 156288321 c w95 Fat32 (LBA) /dev/hdi1 * 1 9729 78148161 c w95 Fat32 (LBA)
