I am trying to recover my boot loader with grub-install but it fails telling me '/dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive'. What can I do to fix this?

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Release Found: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3.

Symptom: Attempts at running the
grub-install
command fail with the following error message:

  /dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive

The hard drive in question is a known good disk and there have been no previous iss...

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