Installing Kubuntu Feisty Fawn from LiveCD (32-bit non-Alternate). I have a single 120GB HD, preinstalled with Windows Vista. I've already shrunk the partition and set up the unallocated space for Linux with GParted. My disk layout:
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 192 1536000 27 Unknown
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 * 192 7604 59541504 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 7605 8648 8385930 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 8649 14593 47753212+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 8649 14332 45656698+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 14333 14593 2096451 82 Linux swap / Solaris
On step 6 of 6, I click the Advanced button. The default GRUB installation location is given as (hd0,0). I don't want GRUB installed into the MBR, so I change it to (sd0,2) in order to have it installed on my / partition (/dev/sda3). When the installation gets to the point where GRUB is to be installed, I get:
"Unable to install GRUB in (sd0,2). Executing 'grub-install (sd0,2)' failed. This is a fatal error."
Why? If my HD was an IDE, then fdisk would identify it as /dev/hda. As it is a SATA, fdisk reports it as /dev/sda, so why does the installation have a problem putting GRUB on (sd0,2) as I tell it to? Am I missing something in my understanding of how to designate a drive/partition for GRUB?
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 192 1536000 27 Unknown
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 * 192 7604 59541504 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 7605 8648 8385930 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 8649 14593 47753212+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 8649 14332 45656698+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 14333 14593 2096451 82 Linux swap / Solaris
On step 6 of 6, I click the Advanced button. The default GRUB installation location is given as (hd0,0). I don't want GRUB installed into the MBR, so I change it to (sd0,2) in order to have it installed on my / partition (/dev/sda3). When the installation gets to the point where GRUB is to be installed, I get:
"Unable to install GRUB in (sd0,2). Executing 'grub-install (sd0,2)' failed. This is a fatal error."
Why? If my HD was an IDE, then fdisk would identify it as /dev/hda. As it is a SATA, fdisk reports it as /dev/sda, so why does the installation have a problem putting GRUB on (sd0,2) as I tell it to? Am I missing something in my understanding of how to designate a drive/partition for GRUB?
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