Gah... Grub-install issues

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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...

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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