This was an odd behavior that I found in grub-install when attempting to update the grub installation on a Linux machine that had booted with the root NFS'ed (admittedly an odd situation.) Running grub-install on /dev/hda fails, giving the error "Not a block device or file not found" which is ridiculous since /dev/hda is certainly found and is also most assuredly a block device. Examining the info pages for grub I realize that this has something to do with grub attempting to install the images under the root directory (which it can't when the root is NFSed).
So I realize that I need to give it an argument, perhaps a --root-directory argument, but what do I tell it? Would mounting /dev/hda under /mnt/local and then running > grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/local /dev/hda work? (I'd normally just try it, but I'm out of the lab for a while and quite curious.) Not at all sure if there is anything that can reasonably be done to make the error for this be any more intelligent, but I thought I'd point it out at least. -Titus Winters _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
