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Posted: Aug. 27 2005,00:50 QUOTE
Hello and thanks to all who helped drag my old computer out of the closet and back into use! I really appreciate the help.

My DSL is a frugal lilo installation and I want to change to a grub loader. Like SU said I downloaded grub.dsl and clicked mydsl button and it installed. When I try to type;

            grub-install /dev/hda

I get the following

           root@ttyp0[dsl]# grub-install /dev/hda
             : Not found or not a block device.

tried same thing under dsl user and got same result.

When I type in grub the program loads and I get a grub> prompt.
Then I try to type;

                grub> root (hd0,0)

I get;

                  Error 21: Selected disk does not exist

checked some docs and tried e2fsck and still same error.

Thanks for a great distro and all your support!
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Posted: Aug. 27 2005,03:47 QUOTE
grub-install does not work for DSL. We do not include all the stuff it needs.

You have to do it the old-fashioned way.

I'm going to assume you understand grub's drive notation. If not, read the documentation on the grub website.

Code Sample
grub --batch <<EOF
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
quit
EOF


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