Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

[Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>]

Chris Fisichella a écrit :
> 
> I'm trying to install 7.8.0-AMD64  on an HP dc5850. The install went
> fine. After it asked me to remove the DVD so it could reboot, Grub loads
> and reports:
> 
> error: no such disk

Before displaying the boot menu or after starting a boot entry ?

> I booted into rescue mode using DVD 1, went to a shell and ran:
> # fdisk -l /dev/sda
>                  boot     ....                            System
> /dev/sda1   *                                           Linux
> /dev/sda2                                               Extended
> /dev/sda5                                               Linux LVM
> 
> I wanted to look at grub.cfg so I typed:
> # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
> 
> cd mnt/grub
> nano grub.cfg
> 
> Everything looks fine. It does say:
> set root='(hd0,msdos1)'

Does grub start a rescue shell ? If yes, what is the output of "ls" and
what does "set" display about prefix= and root= variables ?