[fedora-virt] Trying to move VM efficiently, grub-install, guestfish

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu Oct 29 20:28:37 UTC 2009


On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 08:35:58PM +0100, Dennis J. wrote:
> http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/rescuing-a-failed-vm-install-with-guestfish/
> but when I issue the "grub-install / /dev/sda" all I get is:
> "libguestfs: error: grub_install: grub-install: /dev/sda does not have 
> any corresponding BIOS drive."

I read the rest of your comment with awe.  All I can say is good luck
with your experiments.

Just about the particular error above .. Is /dev/sda the real name of
the drive?  (Try the list-devices command to list the real device
names).

Rich.

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