can't boot fresh install

Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) frankly3d at gmail.com
Sun Aug 9 08:45:08 UTC 2009


On 09/08/09 09:40, Alan Evans wrote:
--snip--
> 
> What comes up in response to the grub-install? It's exactly what I
> posted a couple messages back:
> 
> sh-4.0# chroot /mnt/sysimage
> sh-4.0# grub-install /dev/sda2
> Unknown partition table signature
> Unknown partition table signature
> Unknown partition table signature
> Unknown partition table signature
> Unknown partition table signature
> The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.
> sh-4.0#
> 
No, I meant if you try and boot normally.
from the hard disk, without any cd\dvd

Also can you post the output of
blkid
and menu.lst

editor of choice (vi) /boot/grub/menu.lst

you can possibly email both using a liveCD,
if you have one.




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