This is my $0.02 so take it for what it is. I had the same problem with multi-boot configuration and thanks to others for leading me the way. Here is what I found and it fixed my problems. First -- the basics seems to be: Your hardware configuration should be: IDE0 - Primary/master - hard disk #1 = /dev/hda (boot drive - required) IDE0 - Secondary/slave - hard disk #2 = /dev/hdb IDE1 - Primary/master - CDROM/DVD #1 = /dev/hdc (cdrom - required if used) IDE1 - Secondary/slave - ? = /dev/hdd I have tried before all sorts of other combinations and it wreaked havoc with the fedora installation, at least this is what it did to me. Note that for windows OS, it does not matter as to where the boot hard disk is installed as long as it is a primary/master either on IDE0 or IDE1 and the cdrom/dvd can be anywhere else but for fedora -- apparently it DOES matter. I note that if the cdrom for fedora was on /dev/hdd -- fedora complains with a interrupt problem and spits a message to the message file very often so when I put the cdrom on /dev/hdc -- it "shut up"! Once you get your hardware configuration right and your devices are "fedora approved", you can reinstall grub with 1) Insert your fedora boot cd 2) Run 'linux rescue' 3) Do 'chroot /mnt/sysimage' stage when asked 4) grub-install /dev/hda (NOT /dev/hdaX where X are paritions) 5) remove CDROM 6) type exit twice (it will reboot) then grub should come up. Hope this helps, Dan -----Original Message----- From: Pete Toscano [mailto:pete-fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 10:40 AM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re-installing GRUB on FC3 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 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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
