grub and flying elephants

akonstam_at_trinity.edu
Date: 01/20/05

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    The subject line is for those who remember Dumbo and the line "I guess I
    will have seen everything when I see an elephant fly".

    Well Grub has shown me something I have never seen before so I need help.

    We have 7 identical machines bought at the same time. They are the Dwarf
    machines. I have successfully got Dwarf1 and Dwarf7 up and going with FC2.

    This morning I loaded exactly the same software through untarring an image
    of Dwarf7 on Dwarf2, 3 and 4. I changed the entries in the hosts, network and
    ifcfg-eth0 files. I changed the grub.conf so it looks like the ones that
    work. I will include a copy below. When I run grub-install the all three
    machines return with the error:
    the file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.

    I copied the whole grub directory from a working machine and got the same
    error. On another machine I zeroed the boot part of the MBR and got the same
    error from grub-install. I am clueless. Any help would be appreciated.

    ============== grub.conf file =========================

    # grub.conf generated by anaconda
    #
    # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
    # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
    # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
    # root (hd0,3)
    # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda4
    # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
    #boot=/dev/hda
    default=0
    timeout=20
    splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
    title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.11_FC2smp)
            root (hd0,2)
            kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.11_FC2smp ro root=/dev/sda3
            initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.11_FC2smp.img

    title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.6_FC2)
            root (hd0,2)
            kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.6_FC2 ro root=/dev/sda3
            initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.6_FC2.img

    #title WinXP
    # rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    # chainloader +1 

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Trinity University
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