a cross post -- how tacky
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Does *anyone* who works on GRUB actually work in the real world, and not only on brand new machines?
certainly -- I had a data recovery a couple weeks ago where all I could reach on boot was the grub command prompt, a tight time deadline, no spare box to debug from, and a need to do exploration from that prompt
I just had happen at work what happened last fall on my home system: then, I had /dev/hda, and was trying a clean install on a new SATA drive; right
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I am NEVER OFFERED THE OPTION of the MBR of the drive I'm installing to.
Yup -- Probably you did not get a clean initrd containing the needed driver module for the SATA drive controller in question. Happens a lot.
-- Russ herrold