On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 15:33 +0100, Sjoerd Mullender wrote: > On 2009-01-13 15:07, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > I ran preupgrade on an ancient Thinkpad T20 > > which was running Fedora-8. > > (I hadn't used it for a year or so.) > > > > Preupgrade seemed to run OK, > > but when I re-booted for the second time > > (ie after installing the upgrade) > > I got the dreaded GRUB message, > > which I take to mean that the grub installation > > has got itself screwed up in some way. > > > > I got out my trusty Knoppix-5.1 CD, > > which saw everything on my hard disk clearly, > > mounted /dev/hda8 as /mnt/hda8 and /dev/hda2 as /mnt/hda8/boot , > > and chroot-ed to /mnt.hda8 . > > But when I ran > > #grub > > #grun> root (hd0,1) > > I got the message > > Error 21: Selected disk does not exist > > > > To cut a long story short, when I ran > > #/mnt/hda8/sbin/grub > > I no longer got this message, and was able to install grub with > > #setup (hd0) > > > > Just a story, with no moral. > > > > > > > > > > The disk is called sda (sd0) now, not hda (hd0). ---- No - this is grub and it is only interested in enumerating hard drives in a sequential order but does not differentiate with the kernel module - this is before kernel modules actually are loaded. hd0 is the correct terminology for grub Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines