On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 02:10:31PM -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I just adore the install. Esp. of GRUB.
Does *anyone* who works on GRUB actually work in the real world, and not only on brand new machines?
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 now, I'm installing on a replacement disk on a server that has no CD/DVD drive from a USB key. My options: on my home system, it was MRR on /dev/hda (which was being replaced, and was to become my backup drive), and here, in the MBR of the USB key; in both cases, *only* in the first sector of a partition on the new drive. I am NEVER OFFERED THE OPTION of the MBR of the drive I'm installing to.
*snarl*
mark "no grub, then linux rescue, then chcon, then grub install... I hope"
Try `grub-install --root-directory=/path/to/your/new/system /dev/hda' (if there is on hda).