On 2004-12-19 (Sunday) 20:40, Pete Toscano wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a dual-boot system at home. I needed to re-install XP and it, as
> expected, nuked the GRUB install that was put there when I installed FC3.
>
> This is an IDE-only system with hda and hdc being DVD drives. hde and
> hdg are my hard drives. The boot partition is hdg1 and the root
> partition is LVM on /dev/VolGroup00/root. XP is hde1.
>
> When I try "grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hde" from the
I think you don't need ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ this. AFAIK this is
relative to your boot partition (--root-directory).
> command line as root and reboot, I get the following:
>
> ==============================
> GRUB Loading stage1.5.
>
>
>
> GRUB loading, please wait...
> Error 5
> ==============================
>
> If I boot from my GRUB boot floppy, then load the config file on my
> /boot partition ("configfile (hd1,0)/grub/grub.conf"), everything works
> fine. I've tried various combinations of grub-install from the command
> line and install and setup from the GRUB shell after booting from the
> floppy, but the result is always as above.
>
> Here's the device.map:
>
> (fd0) /dev/fd0
> (hd0) /dev/hde
> (hd1) /dev/hdg
>
> Here's the grub.conf (with comments stripped):
>
> default=0
> timeout=5
> title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.681_FC3)
> root (hd1,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/root
> initrd /initrd=2.6.9-1.681_FC3.img
> title WinXP
> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
>
> I know the GRUB can be installed and works fine (since it did after the
> FC3 install), but I have yet to find the magic combination that'll work
> now. Any suggestions for how to get this to run so I don't have to keep
> booting from floppy?
>
> Thanks,
> pete
>
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