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Re: grub, bios drives



On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 09:07:40 +0100
Hugh Saunders <hugh@mjr.org> wrote:

> grub> find /vmlinuz
>  (hd0,3)
> 
> grub> setup (hd0) 
> 
> Error 12: Invalid device requested
> 
> grub> setup (hd0,0)
> 
> Error 12: Invalid device requested

>From the grub prompt did you do "root" before "setup"?

If the grub files and the kernel are on /dev/hda4, try:

root (hd0,3)
setup (hd0)

to write a boot loader to the MBR. Doing "setup (hd0,3)" would write a boot
loader to the partition boot sector of /dev/hda4, which probably won't much
good.

I don't use devfs, so I can't help with that.

Kevin



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