On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 20:09 -0800, Hex Star wrote: > What kind of drive does your computer have (e.g. is it a SATA drive?)? > There have been cases where some SATA drives have not been working > properly with grub... > I don't think my drive is a SATA drive. Mine is a Maxtor Diamond Max ATA-133, 200GB drive. Turns out that when I did a grub-install /dev/hda, grub overwrote the master boot record, destroying not only the MBR for the system-commander but also took the entire partition #1 out of service which was a Win98SE partition. Sigh... I was experimenting around to try to get a handle on grub but apparently grub does not seem to be able to create a boot partition on a partition other than on the first partition. Heck, it does not even construct the proper needed files in the grub directory. I guess I will have to roll up my sleeves, get some strong coffee and ram this process through as I have done many times before. Muti-boot installations are a pain in the rear every time you forget past details of how you did it before... sigh. Dan > On 3/25/06, Dan Thurman <dant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Folks, > > I have done this many times, but for some reason > I am just having a bad-hair day or something :-( > > I am trying install FC5 as a multi-boot partition > and I have done this many times before, although it > has not always been easy in previous releases I > have done, but I was able to to get it working from > FC1 through FC4 and FC5-T3. > > In this particular situation, I have installed my > /boot partition in /dev/hda3 (hd0,2) and my / partition > in /dev/hda7 (hd0,6) and I told anaconda (first time > installation) > to install grub at /dev/hda7 and when the install completed, > and rebooted - grub fails to run. My multi-boot program > (system commander) is running but I could not launch > fedora from it. > > Ok, so I whipped out the rescue disc, booted it, and > chroot /mnt/sysimage, then looked in /boot and I see > that the kernel and the rest of the stuff there including > the grub directory. Looking in the grub directory, all > the stages are there - minus grub.conf > > Strange... why is grub.conf missing? Why is the > splash.xpm.gz file missing? > > Ok, I created grub.conf from scratch, the grub.conf file, > rebooted and nope this did not work... yes, I used the > proper (hd0,6) definitions so that is not the issue. > > Using the rescue disc again, I went to /boot, and > then moved grub to xxxx, then ran grub-install as: > > grub-install /dev/hda7 > > It ran... and created a new grub directory with all > the stages, minus grub.conf amd splash.xpm.gz files. > > What is going on? Do I need to get a strong drink > or something? > > Please advise... > > Kind regards, > Dan > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
