Grub from stage3 and latest-portage is not working with command grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda, and it is the same of do it manually install way of grub to mbr. First is grub-install not skipping search for the floppy ad fd0 and gives 4-7 lines with I/O error on fd0 sector 0, and then at last coe with that /boot/grub/stage1 is not found. The same comes by do grub install mannually. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda 2. grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda 3. grub --no-floppy - root (hd0,0) (fine) - setup (hd0) (errort by file stage1) Actual Results: Grub result with that /boot/grub/stage1 is not found, and that grub not is proberly or not installed to MBR on the harddisk. Expected Results: The expested result should have been: Grub is fine installed to the MBR on /dev/sda - and so that after reboot will grub found and let kernel and initramfs mount /dev/sda3 and not stopping with that /dev/sda3 not is been mounted. Grub is not working as it should have done.
Please provide "emerge --info" and "emerge -pv grub" outputs. Also the exact errors and outputs you are getting while trying to reproduce
