On Saturday 17 January 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: > I just did an install onto a machine with a single internal IDE > hard drive. hda1 is Win2K (NTFS), hda2 is swap, hda3 is Gentoo > root (ext3). > > I was following the "quick install" doc, and everything went > fine until I got to the section on installing grub. After > emerging grub, the "root" command failed: > > grub> root (hd0,2) > > Error 21: Selected disk does not exist > > I tried hd0,hd1,hd2,hd3 with various paritions from 0 to 2 and > always got an Error 21. The drive is recognized correctly by > the BIOS, and Win2K boots and runs fine. I rebooted and > chroot'ed several times and always got Error 21. > > So, I downloaded a Grub CD from http://www.supergrubdisk.org/. > The grub on the CD recognized the disk and all partitions > correctly and installed just fine using the normal procedure: > > root (hd0,2) > setup (hd0) > > I rebooted, and everything works great. > > Any ideas on why grub couldn't see any hard drives when it was > run from the 2008.0 minimal install CD's chroot'ed environment? > I've done dozens of Gentoo installs, and I've never seen this > problem before.
Did you try tab completion at: grub> root ( <--tab Had you chrooted properly at the time and could you see the grub fs under /boot/grub ?. -- Regards, Mick
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