a cross post -- how tacky On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, m.roth at 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 ... snip > 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