Re: Installing Grub on HD fails!

[dman]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 05:33:09PM -0400, Martin Felker wrote:
 
| But when I try to install GRUB (grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda)
                                                                      ^^^^^^^^

Try using the grub name instead of the linux name.

    grub-install '(hd0)'

It always works for me (well, except for the time I used '(hd0,0)',
but that was PEBKAC :-)).

(though I haven't touch WinXP yet and don't intend to any time soon)

-D

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