On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 08:06:11 -0000, Stephen Black <steve@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks for the replies guys. > > I believe that I forced the reiserfs option at the beginning of the install. > However, I am not sure about this. I have since reinstalled using a manual > partitioning of /boot = ext2fs; / = ext2fs and a swap partition. All of > these are on hdb. Sorry if you wanted to use reiserfs. It shouldn't have mattered what / was especially since you have a seperate /boot partition. > I did use grub-install /dev/hda to install grub to the MBR. There are a couple of manual methods that would be worth trying. Such as: # grub grub> root (hd1,0) grub> setup (hd0) grub> quit If that doesn't work, then maybe something like: (it might be good to "umount /boot" before this one) # grub grub> root (hd1,0) grub> install /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 p /grub/menu.lst Also, be sure you check your device.map file is correct. It should be something like: (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/hda (hd1) /dev/hdb > I had the same problem as before. (Error 17 during Stage 1.5). You don't get > as far as a grub command line. You have to reboot with a floppy containing > grub which boots to the command line. You can then boot either OS by the > manual method I described in my earlier post. > > However, what is really strange is that I have installed grub to another > floppy. This boots fine and presents me with a lovely Fedora splash image > and menu containing both the options in my grub.conf file. I can then boot > both Fedora and Windows XP from this menu. Did you copy the grub.conf file to the floppy, or is it seeing it on the disk? > Why though, does it work from floppy and not from my MBR? Obviously I don't > want a floppy in the computer every time I boot. Hey, extra security ; ). I believe the reason the floppy works and from the MBR doesn't is that the floppy has everything it needs to bring up a full GRUB shell. The MBR holds only stage1 with a reference to either a stage 1.5 or stage 2 if I read things right. It seems that something is wrong with this reference. > Steve Black Jonathan
