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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am going to just take a stab in the dark
but try the <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>the Grub file change the /dev to
/UNIONFS/dev<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Grub-install /UNIONFS/dev/had<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>then change the file back to /dev and try
a reboot there.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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[mailto:wplug-bounces+mpoconnor=switch.com@wplug.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Arnaud Loos<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, July 14, 2006 1:36
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> WPLUG<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [wplug] grub-install</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><a name=""></a><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>So I’m trying to run grub install to make grub my
bootloader after reinstalling windows.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Steps
I’m taking (found at linuxquestions.org):</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Boot
Knoppix</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Mkdir</span></font>
<font face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>/mnt/my_system</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Mount</span></font>
<font face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>–t</span></font> <font
face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>ext3 /dev/hda2 /mnt/my_system</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Cd</span></font>
<font face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>/mnt/my_system</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Chroot</span></font>
<font face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>/mnt/my_system</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Grub-install
/dev/hda</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>I’m
able to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">mount</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">hda2</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> and chroot to it. When I run</span></font>
<font face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>grub-install however I get
back</span></font> <font face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>“/dev/hda:
not found or not a block device”</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>If
I open Qparted I can see all my partitions but I noticed that they’re
listed as /UNIONFS/dev/hda1</span></font> <font face=Calibri><span
style='font-family:Calibri'>…</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>I
believe the UNIONFS part is just an effect of running knoppix and is not
causing my problem but I’m not sure.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>I
believe my problem may be caused by the fact that I have hda2 mounted but I’m
not sure.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>I
chrooted to my old install so that grub would install in the correct location
and so it would use my pre-existing menu.lst, is that necessary?</span></font> <font
face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>I did also try to run
grub-install after exiting from chroot and being at the knoppix command prompt.
This resulted in the same error message but I did still have the partition
mounted.</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>I
could use some clarification here. My next step will be to run grub-install
without mounting anything first, but</span></font> <font face=Calibri><span
style='font-family:Calibri'>to be safe I thought I’d just ask.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Thanks.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Arnaud-</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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