[feisty] grub-install problem

[Derek Broughton]

Jonathan Hudson wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:35:07 +1000
> Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:22:58 +0200
>> Jakub <rezydent at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > recently i updated to feisty.
>> > since then i haven't been able to grub-install /dev/hda or for
>> > instance cfdisk /dev/hda
>> > ls /dev/hd* doesn't return anything. but the root file system is on
>> > that disk. so what gives? and how do i fix it?
>> 
>> See if the upgrade has converted your /dev/hd* to /dev/sd*
>> This has happened for some people.
> 
> That one got me! Could not understand where my swap had gone. Year or
> so old HP laptop, the model number escapes me atm.

I'm surprised I've seen so few people bitten by this - I'm guessing because
the edgy upgrade moved to UUID based mounts (though I'm not sure how grub
would have been fixed).  Fortunately for me, the drive on this laptop has
always been /dev/sda*, so there's no conversion to worry about.
-- 
derek