Gah... Grub-install issues
Dan Thurman
dant at cdkkt.com
Sun Mar 26 19:32:52 UTC 2006
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 at cdkkt.com> 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
>
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