Hello

>   the file /etc/grub.conf is modified this way :
> 
>   sed -e "s/splashimage/password --md5 ${MD5PASSWD}\nsplashimage/g" \
>   < grub.conf  > grub.conf.new
>   mv grub.conf.new grub.conf

Well , I'm not sure you really want to do this that way:

# ls -l /etc/grub.conf
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           22 Feb 26  2005 /etc/grub.conf
-> ../boot/grub/grub.conf

originally /etc/grub.conf is a symbolic link to /boot/grub/grub.conf
-> after your manipulation you substitute it with a file .. and not the
one that actually boot loader loads ...


>   and we re-install grub :
> 
>   /sbin/grub-install /dev/sda
> 
> => We get an error message when executing /sbin/grub-install /dev/sda
>    saying that it is not defined in BIOS

And the exact error message is ? ...

(you may want to run grub-install --debug /dev/sda)

Cheers

Jarek
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