grub problem - please help!

From: Neil Bird (neil_at_fnxweb.com)
Date: 05/23/05

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       [cut down version of something I've tried to post N times now; it
    just keeps disappearing somewhere ... ]

       Essentially, if I boot of a CD with grub on, I get the menu OK, but
    trying to actually bot gives me 'error 25: disk read error'. Hitting
    'c' for the command line and typing the commands in the grub.conf
    verbatim (below: root/kernel/initrd) followed by 'boot' works though.

       Why might there be a difference?

    default 0
    prompt 1
    splashimage (hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
    timeout 4

    title Linux
       root (hd0,4)
       kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
       initrd /initrd.img 

    -- 
[neil@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature
[neil@fnx ~]# ls -l .signature
ls: .signature: No such file or directory
[neil@fnx ~]# exit
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