A slightly different wrinkle. I netbooted my laptop to do a feisty install because there wasn't space on / to do an upgrade. Did an expert install. When I tried to install grub, it failed. Bottom line was that I didn't format /boot, and grub was finding the definition of hd0 in device.map was /dev/hda, however seems like feisty is using the libata version, so hda needed to be sda.
My usual process for debugging grub/lilo install failures on installations goes like this, in case it is useful for someone else: cd / /target/bin/mount --bind /dev /target/dev /target/bin/mount --bind /proc /target/proc chroot /target /bin/bash then I can do things like: # grub-install hd0 /dev/sda3 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive # # edit /boot/grub/device.map and change hda to sda # grub-install hd0 Installation fnished. No error reported. ... (hd0) /dev/sda # And then I could complete the rebuild. Seems like with a conversion to libata, the grub setup needs to deal with an existing device.map. -- Grub Install Failure https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/14135 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
