from the desk of stinkpot

while replacing a hard drive in my server this weekend, I tried to install GRUB on the replacement hard drive:

> /usr/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda

only to receive the following error message:

/dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.

this was strange, as I was certain that /dev/hda existed.  after some googling, I found the solution:

> sudo /usr/sbin/grub-install –recheck /dev/hda