The grub-install --recheck gives this: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Installation finished. No erro reported. This is the contents of the device map /vol/boot/grub/device.map (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/sda (hd1) /dev/sdb Is this what it is supposed to be? Christian Zimmermann FIGUGEGL! Department of Economics University of Connecticut 341 Mansfield Road, Unit 1063 Storrs, CT 06269-1063 http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/ christian.zimmermann@uconn.edu http://ideas.repec.org/e/pzi1.html On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Thomas Krichel wrote:
Christian Zimmermann writes
There is floppy and DVD drive.
I ran /usr/sbin/grub-install --root-directory=/vol /dev/sdb1
got the following response: /dev/sdb1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive presumably because I have not yet switched the drives in BIOS.
Then you have to run
grub-install -recheck --root-directory=/vol /dev/sdb1
without a successful grub install it will not run.
Try again with the grup install.
I just tried to boot on sda1 with root on sdb1. It refuses, saying the automatic fsck did not work, put root in read-only, wants a manual fsck. sdb1 does not appear in df. /etc/fstab issue? That file is as usual (/dev/sda1 /, /dev/sdb1 /vol).
Most likely. Change taht fgile so that /dev/sdb is supposed to run the root.
But try another grub-install first.
Cheers,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel phone: +7 383 330 6813 skype: thomaskrichel