On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 17:06 -0500, fredex wrote: > On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 04:29:07PM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 15:21 +0000, Mike Cohler wrote: > > > Timothy Payne <tim <at> tmpco.com> writes: > > > > > > > > > > > chroot /mnt/sysimage > > > > > /sbin/grub-install > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks but it just asked for more info. Do I need to give it hd0? > > > > > > > > > > /sbin/grub-install mbr > > > > > > > mbr is not a proper argument to greub-install > > Something like hd0 or even /dev/hda will work. > > I had a huge fight with grub a few months ago (on RHEL WS 4) and I found > that only hd0 worked. Using /dev/hda1 did not produce any error messages, > but it wouldn't boot either. Once I did it with hd0 it booted just fine. > go figure. > look at what you used. /dev/hda1 is the boot sector of the partition. If you used /dev/hda it puts it on the drive boot sector (MBR) and it will work. hd0 works because that is in /boot/grub/devices.map as the boot drive > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list