Essentially, if I boot of a CD with grub on, I get the menu OK, but trying to actually bot gives me 'error 25: disk read error'. Hitting 'c' for the command line and typing the commands in the grub.conf verbatim (below: root/kernel/initrd) followed by 'boot' works though.
Well, not 'solved' so much as 'worked around'.
The command that causes the bizarre difference is 'splashimage'. Although this works itself, it causes the menu to fail (but allowed the command line to work). So I removed it.
I actually go with the following, as I installed grub onto /dev/hda5; I left the splashimage in the main HD grbu install, as it makes no difference there:
default 0 timeout 4
title Linux rootnoverify (hd0,4) chainlaoder +1
-- [neil@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature [neil@fnx ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [neil@fnx ~]# exit
