Re: In trouble from the very start

[Yedidyah Bar-David]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 06:37:29PM -0500, David A. Cobb wrote:
> Hi,
[snip]
>    ANYWAY, I tried to install GRUB [0.95-cvs200406].
> 
> [16:27:54] bash # grub-install --recheck /dev/hda
> Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc does not have any corresponding 
> BIOS drive.
> [18:33:52] bash #
> 
> That can't be good news.  It looks as though something [Bastille being a 
> likely culprit] got in and made some clever changes to the bootstrapping 
> process.
> 
> I need to undo this, whatever it is.
> Can anyone help??

For a start, try deleting /boot/grub/device.map and running grub-install
again. Maybe even all of /boot/grub, if you do not have important things
there (and you can write the config file yourself). Or rename it.
-- 
Didi