GRUB blues

[jludwig]

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 21:58, Andre Costa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried installing GRUB on a machine today, and even though I insisted
> it should boot from the first partition (/boot on /dev/hda1), it stopped
> all the times right after boot with its own shell prompt. Typing 'root'
> showed me it was believing "hd0,2" (3rd partition) was the root
> partition -- hell knows why it thought that (faulty BIOS maybe?).
> 
> The bottom line is that machine is only bootable through GRUB shell
> with:
> 
> root (hd0,0)
> configfile /grub/grub.conf
> 
> Anyone knows how to fix this? I tried all its commands I thought I could
> help (setup, install), with all possible parameters, to no avail.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Andre
> 
> -- 
> Andre Oliveira da Costa
You can reinstall from the grub command line. This is actually the
recommended way.
1) root (hd0,0)   #Where the kernel is vmlinux*

2) find /boot/grub/stage1

3) setup (hd0)

Recheck the procedure if needed but I believe this is correct
-- 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>