FC4 Install GRUB Load Error

[David Niemi]

On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 03:02 -0700, Chris Kirk wrote:
> On 8/13/05, David Niemi <drn_temp2 at rogers.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 02:24 -0700, Chris Kirk wrote:

> > So, grub appears to be installed but not working properly. I don't know
> > much about that particular error.
> > 
> > Boot into linux using either your rescue CD or the boot disk. If you
> > booted into x-windows with the boot cd, log in as the user you created,
> > preferably not root at this point in time. If you booted using the CD
> > skip the next paragraph.
> > 
> > Open a terminal window and type "su -" and give your root password, to
> > become temporarily the superuser.
> > 
> > Type "cd /boot/root" and type "grub" and you will now be at the "grub>"
> > prompt.  Now issue the command "root (hd0,0)" to tell grub where it's
> > root device is installed to.
> > 
> > Next type "setup (hd0)" to install grub to the MBR. Now type "quit" to
> > exit grub.  Check that your grub.conf file refers to (hd0) with similar
> > lines to what you had above by typing "cat grub.conf".  Now hopefully it
> > should boot from the hard drive.
> > 
> > If you need to copy the grub files back to the /boot/grub directory of
> > your install, the original files should be located in a directory off
> > of /usr/share/grub/ depending on your install.
> 
> Hey,
> 
> Thanks for trying to help but I don't seem to be getting anywhere. I
> did like you said, I had FC4 booted up from the floppy with GRUB in it
> and opened a Terminal Window.
> 
> I su - to root and put in the root password, and then did
> cd /boot
> grub
> got the grub>
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0,0)
> hit ctrl c and then did
> cd grub
> cat grub.conf
> and the grub.conf file looked just like I think it should.
> 
> I think I may have an idea on what may be causing it. When I load GRUB
> from the floppy it does GRUB Loading stage2..........................
> But then when I takeout the floppy and try and load GRUB from the
> harddrive it says
> GRUB Loading stage1.5.
> 
> Do you have any idea on how to switch the harddrive grub to run
> stage2? Or any other ideas on how to fix it?
> 
"setup (hd0)" NOT "setup (hd0,0)", and type "quit" to exit the "grub>"
prompt.

You may need to copy those files over from the directory
under /usr/share/grub/ to "/boot/grub".  I'll see what I can find on
that error.