> On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 02:10:31PM -0400, m.roth at 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). I did the linux rescue, chroot (whoops, not chcon) to /mnt/sysimage, and did grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda Now, when I reboot, it goes into the grub shell. Googling, and using the hostile find, I set root (hd0,0), and then setup (hd0). It claims everything is wonderful... but when I reboot, I go back to the grub shell. >From the grub shell, I've also tried telling it kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5, and it claims it can't find that; neither can find. This is *so* much more sophisticated than changing lilo.conf, and running lilo to update the MBR.... And no, I have no choice, this is work, so I have to use the mandated grub. mark