Bug#318799: does not set up a proper grub when installing in hdb MBR

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Noel Torres <envite@telefonica.net> writes:

> Package: installation
> Severity: grave
>
> I installed normally from Sarge DVD 1 in my brand-new hard disk hdb.
> Everything seemed OK, and I partitioned my new disk (boot, swap, root,
> home and all the others) and selected to install grub in MBR of hdb.
>
> During rebooting, I set up my BIOS to boot from hdb. The computer
> booted, and grub showed me a menu with the two new kernel entries
> (normal and recover mode) and all my old kernels from hda.

That probably changed hdb from being hd1 to hd0 for the bios. Grub
then looked in the wrong place. You should have set this up before
installing D-I. Might have helped. :)

> I selected to boot the new kernel, and grub said me that it can not
> execute the second instruction "kernel" because it can not find the
> file.
>
> I keystroked e-d-b and my new system booted OK. Simply deleting the
> first line "root (hd1,0)" worked.

MfG
        Goswin