portable:/home/laurent# grub-install /dev/sda Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. grub-probe: error: Cannot get the real path of `/dev/fd0' portable:/home/laurent# grub-install /dev/sda Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub Due to a bug in xfs_freeze, the following command might produce a segmentation fault when /boot/grub is not in an XFS filesystem. This error is harmless and can be ignored. xfs_freeze: specified file ["/boot/grub"] is not on an XFS filesystem Installation finished. No error reported. This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map. Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'. (hd0) /dev/sda