On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 10:31:28PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 13:25:19 -0400, Haines wrote in message
> <20210803172519.GG29739@???>:
>
> > I'm doing a cross install of beowulf. BIOS is legacy. All goes well
> > until the end when I run /#: grub-install /dev/sdc .
> >

> >         Installing for i386-pc platform.
> >         device node not found
> >         ...
> >         Installation finished. No error reported.

> >
> > I should mention that when I initially ran the command my terminal
> > (mlterm) crashed (that sometimes happens). So I had to chroot again
> > to the mount point /mnt/devinst/
> >
> > It seems that the grub-install cannot see the mbr on /dev/sdc
>
> ..is there one? 'fdisk -l ' or somesuch should work, even if
> there are some new fancy /dev names missing symlinks to /dev/sdc,
> e.g. killed by that mlterm crash.

Indeed, fdisk-l returns nothing. There does exist a set of sdc*
interfaces in /dev. What is the fix?

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Haines Brown