[Bug 80661] Re: Error when installing grub

[Robert Roth]

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** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  Error when installing grub

Status in “grub” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I installed Feisty Fawn Herd-2. All went ok, but when I tried to install GRUB to the root partition of the installation (/dev/hda11) I got the following error message:
  grub-install /dev/sda11

  /dev/sda11 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.

  
  The system has a PATA Disk, but due to Kernel 2.6.20 the disk naming scheme is like SCSI or SATA devices (sdx instead of hdx). Also the old naming scheme doesn't work:
  grub-install /dev/hda11

  /dev/hda11: Not found or not a block device.

  
  Now I found a fix for this in this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=233540
  There was the hint to /boot/grub/device.map and in this file there still was the old naming convention used:
  (hd0)   /dev/hda
  so I changed this to 

  (hd0)   /dev/sda
  and know the installation of grub works fine:

  
  grub-install /dev/sda11

  Installation finished. No error reported.

  This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.

  Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,

  fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.


  (hd0)   /dev/sda

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