Re: grub and devfs

[Christian Hesse]

On Thursday 23 May 2002 17:30, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> You forgot the version of GRUB.  Not all versions are equal!

Sorry, I've forgotten to mention that. I'm using grub 0.92 with linux 2.4.18. 
/ ist ext3, /boot is still ext2.

> > address@hidden:~# grub-install /dev/discs/disc0/disc
> > /dev/discs/disc0/disc does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
>
> Try removing /boot/grub/device.map or add "--recheck" to the command line.
> Your /boot/grub/device.map was created before you installed devfs and it
> has old names in it.

This version of Linux has been installed with devfs, so there can't be any old 
names. The problem is not that I can't install it but that grub does not 
understand using symlinks correctly.

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Regards,
  Christian Hesse