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I have an ASUS P5GDC mother board with SATA drives and the
usual other stuff. A while back I successfully installed WXP and FC3 and
ran both using a GRUB boot prompt without any problems whatsoever.
Recently I got the FC4 disk set and installed it without problems. Well, afterwards,
there are few drivers and such you need and in the process of getting these,
and I think doing something to grub.conf which I should not have, the whole
system boot went south. I could not recover it with the rescue disk. OK, so next I restored WXP using the fixmbr utility, and WXP
is fine. I have now reinstalled both FC3 and FC4 several times and grub does
not install properly in all cases. There is some screen activity in place
of the “grub stage1 loading’ but there is no dual boot choice of
any kind and no evidence whatsoever that the stage1 boot routine is actually on
the MBR and trying to load. I have a root partition which I choose not to reformat, and
a /usr partition which I always reformat during each FC install. I am
doing a plain vanilla installation of a default workstation. I choose the grub
boot loader option the same way each time. If it is not clear, what
worked fine one time before for both FC3 and FC4 is now broke and I am
stumped. Grub documentation seems hard to find and what to do next?
I have heard others mention a GRUB restore option on the FC install menus and I
cannot find such a thing. I am reluctant to reformat the root partition
because of my home directory, but why should that matter anyway? HELP! |
