Ted Gervais wrote: > Well - everything is installed on the hard drive. I am certain of > that. But for some reason fedora core6 will not install grub on this > machine. > And previously, I had core5 on here (hdb) and it worked fine. In fact I > was impresssed with it and now am wondering why I should upgrade? > > So, there has to be a reason why fedora won't install grub on this > machine. But at the moment I am totally lost for any reason why it won't > install. If you can get into your linux system you could try grub-install --recheck /dev/hda Maybe grub has a different idea about your hard disks to you. If you can't get into your linux system you could run this command from your first Fedora CD in rescue mode (after following the chroot command suggested). I'm no linux guru, but you could try looking at the MBR of /dev/hda with something like ------------------------------------- [tim@martha ~]$ sudo dd if=/dev/hda of=out bs=512 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.385087 seconds, 1.3 kB/s [tim@martha ~]$ strings out ZRrI D|f1 GRUB Geom Hard Disk Read Error ------------------------------------- I think there should be some mention of GRUB if it is installed. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
