Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 240889
grub cannot find disk
Last modified: 2008-05-06 15:37:00 EDT
System is new Dell Precision 390 with 2 320GB SATA disks with Intel ICH7 in AHCI mode. Windows XP pre-installed on sda. Attempt to install Fedora on sdb with grub in MBR on sda. Anaconda failed to update the MBR and the system still boots to Windows. :-( A clue appears in tty5: grub> root (hd1,0) Error 21: Selected disk does not exist grub> install /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 p (hd1,0)/grub/grub.conf Error 12: Invalid device requested grub> Now it gets interesting... If I run grub in the shell on tty2, it *will* find root (hd1,0) and then I can install grub into the MBR on (hd0).
FWIW...just tested rawhide. No error in tty5. It finds (hd1,0) just fine.
Does this still happen with Fedora 7 or the Fedora 8 test releases?
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