rescue method missing

2008-04-11 Thread Hadmut Danisch
Hi, I was just force to migrate from grub 0.97 to grub2 by a debian upgrade. Well, manpages are poor and I made some mistake with installing grub. It is not always obvious where to give a device path, a device like (hd0) or (hd0,0). man pages and error messages should be more verbose. However, I

grub does not handle /dev/md/1

2008-04-11 Thread Hadmut Danisch
Hi, after upgrading to latest debian I can't install grub anymore: My /boot directory is located on /dev/md/1 which consists of /dev/hda1 and /dev/sda1. # grub-install "(hd0)" grub-probe: error: Unknown kind of RAID device `/dev/md/1' Auto-detection of a filesystem module failed. Please specify

Re: cant install grub

2008-04-11 Thread walt
A B wrote: ... In grub find /boot/grub/stage1 tells me there is only (hd0,1) and not (hd1,0) but trust me, the files are there! You didn't say what version of grub you are using, but I'm assuming it's probably 0.9x. (The process for grub2 is different.) Until grub can see hd1 you're stuc