Re: Gah... Grub-install issues
- From: Dan Thurman <dant@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:32:52 -0800
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 20:09 -0800, Hex Star wrote:
What kind of drive does your computer have (e.g. is it a SATA drive?)?
There have been cases where some SATA drives have not been working
properly with grub...
I don't think my drive is a SATA drive. Mine is a Maxtor Diamond Max
ATA-133, 200GB drive.
Turns out that when I did a grub-install /dev/hda, grub overwrote the
master boot record, destroying not only the MBR for the system-commander
but also took the entire partition #1 out of service which was a Win98SE
partition. Sigh... I was experimenting around to try to get a handle
on grub but apparently grub does not seem to be able to create a boot
partition on a partition other than on the first partition. Heck, it
does not even construct the proper needed files in the grub directory.
I guess I will have to roll up my sleeves, get some strong coffee and
ram this process through as I have done many times before. Muti-boot
installations are a pain in the rear every time you forget past details
of how you did it before... sigh.
Dan
On 3/25/06, Dan Thurman <dant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Folks,
I have done this many times, but for some reason
I am just having a bad-hair day or something :-(
I am trying install FC5 as a multi-boot partition
and I have done this many times before, although it
has not always been easy in previous releases I
have done, but I was able to to get it working from
FC1 through FC4 and FC5-T3.
In this particular situation, I have installed my
/boot partition in /dev/hda3 (hd0,2) and my / partition
in /dev/hda7 (hd0,6) and I told anaconda (first time
installation)
to install grub at /dev/hda7 and when the install completed,
and rebooted - grub fails to run. My multi-boot program
(system commander) is running but I could not launch
fedora from it.
Ok, so I whipped out the rescue disc, booted it, and
chroot /mnt/sysimage, then looked in /boot and I see
that the kernel and the rest of the stuff there including
the grub directory. Looking in the grub directory, all
the stages are there - minus grub.conf
Strange... why is grub.conf missing? Why is the
splash.xpm.gz file missing?
Ok, I created grub.conf from scratch, the grub.conf file,
rebooted and nope this did not work... yes, I used the
proper (hd0,6) definitions so that is not the issue.
Using the rescue disc again, I went to /boot, and
then moved grub to xxxx, then ran grub-install as:
grub-install /dev/hda7
It ran... and created a new grub directory with all
the stages, minus grub.conf amd splash.xpm.gz files.
What is going on? Do I need to get a strong drink
or something?
Please advise...
Kind regards,
Dan
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