Bug 504874 - Should say /dev/sda in 17.2.1. Reinstalling the Boot Loader
Summary: Should say /dev/sda in 17.2.1. Reinstalling the Boot Loader
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora Documentation
Classification: Retired
Component: install-guide
Version: devel
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: David Nalley
QA Contact: David Nalley
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-06-09 20:44 UTC by Andre Robatino
Modified: 2009-06-17 23:53 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-06-17 23:53:35 UTC
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Description Andre Robatino 2009-06-09 20:44:43 UTC
Description of problem:
In http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f11/en-US/html/s1-rescuemode-boot.html it refers to /dev/hda, which should say /dev/sda instead.  I discovered this after reinstalling Windows and getting a "/dev/hda: Not found or not a block device." error.

Comment 1 Karsten Wade 2009-06-09 21:40:20 UTC
*** Bug 504875 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 eric 2009-06-10 22:29:07 UTC
Can any of these be closed?

Comment 3 Ruediger Landmann 2009-06-10 22:47:15 UTC
This isn't really a bug. The actual text reads: 

"Type /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda to reinstall the GRUB boot loader, where /dev/hda is the boot partition."

So, where /dev/hda is *not* the boot partition, you should change this to whatever is appropriate for your particular system. 

Having said that, /dev/hda is an unusual example now, and I'll change this for version 11.1 of the guide in the next few weeks.

Comment 4 Andre Robatino 2009-06-10 22:56:26 UTC
It's not good to give the boot partition argument a name that just happens to coincide with a particular common value of it, since people will take it to mean that the boot partition is, in fact, always /dev/hda.  Instead, it should say something like

"Type /sbin/grub-install bootpart to reinstall the GRUB boot loader, where bootpart is the boot partition (usually /dev/sda)."

Comment 5 Ruediger Landmann 2009-06-17 23:53:35 UTC
Updated along the lines you suggest. This will appear in the next release of the guide. Thanks!


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