* Martin Yazdzik yazdzik@nyct.net [20060509 15:15]:

On Tuesday 09 May 2006 08:21, HXC wrote:

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I get the following error when I try to issue a "grub-install /dev/hda": //dev/root: Not found or not a block device.

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/Grml resides on hda3 and is formatted with xfs. How can I proceed to install grub? Thanks in advance for you help!

Tony Wolf went through this with me about a week ago.

There is some problem, to wit, after apt-get install grub the necessary files to install grub to mbr are not present in /boot.

I used a simple cheat, which was to use a live cd and run grub install from there, using my grml partition as root, in other words, install grub to mbr, pointing toward the /hddx were grml is.

In your case, this ought to be, from a live cd,

grub install root (hd0,2) install /dev/hda

Doing this from within grml does not seem to work.

Yes, as grub uses files from within /boot which aren't available via /boot in the Debian package of grub.

Assuming /dev/sda1 is your grml harddisk system:

mount /mnt/sda1 mkdir /mnt/sda1/boot/grub cp /lib/grub/i386-pc/stage[12] /mnt/sda1/boot/grub/ grub install root (hd0,0) setup (hd0)

And adjusting /boot/grub/menu.lst (on the harddisk system of course ;)) should work.

regards, -mika-