I am experiencing this too, unfortunately the machine is down so I can't provide more info right now. Basically what happens is that grub is trying to install itself on a device that does not exist: /dev/sda, while the config et all is pointing to /dev/hda (in my case). I'll get back with more info. -- ·''`. Gay scientists discover the Christian gene : :' : `. `' `- Proudly running (unstable) Debian GNU/Linux