On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:24:28AM -0600, Robert Nichols wrote: > akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >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. > I am surprised that someone did not come up with the answer which turns out to be simple. grub-install is a rather lame script which is identified as deprecated. The correct way of installing grub is by using the setup command so the drill is as follows: grub grub> root (hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) grub> quit setup does what grub-install is supposed to do. I am assuming that grub-install has problems with SCSI drive booting. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
