GRUB woes (install to hde)

From: Matt Price (matt.price_at_utoronto.ca)
Date: 09/29/05

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    Hi folks,

    following up on several earlier threads, including one of my own --

    I'm trying desperately to install grub on an auxiliary hard drive
    currently living on the 3rd IDE bus (/dev/hde). This is part of a
    scheme to do a mass debian install based on disk images... but for now,
    the important thing is that I can't seem to install grub to this
    location.

    I've tried 2 methods:
    1) as root, execute grub-install "(hd2)" [also tried hd4, I get the
    same results]. Here's the output:

     grub-install "(hd2)"

        GNU GRUB version 0.95 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

     [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word,
    TAB
       lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the
    possible
       completions of a device/filename. ]
    grub> root (hd0,0)
     Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
    grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --prefix=/boot/grub (hd2)
     Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
     Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
     Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
     Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd2)"... failed (this is not
    fatal)
     Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,0)"... failed (this is
    not fatal)
     Running "install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd2)
    /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu.lst "... failed

    Error 21: Selected disk does not exist
    grub> quit

    ----------------

    bummer. so, I tried a method suggested elsewhere, and chrooted into
    the filesystem on the disk in question to install grub from there: 

    ---
#chroot /mnt/hde                 
root@anarres:/# grub-install /dev/hde
/dev/hde does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
root@anarres:/# grub-install hd4     
The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.
---
soooo... what's going on?  I've been workingo n this for a while and
need to have it working soon.... any suggestions?  really REALLY
appreciate your help,
matt
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