Installation of FCT2: GRUB interactive on 1stinstallandGRUBhangs on 2nd install

[Kenny Speer]

I'm afraid not.  Hard drives have a feature called 
"bad-block-remapping", if sectors go bad they are remapped internally on 
the drive to spare blocks used for this purpose.  I don't know enough 
about the DOS MBR and grub to tell you if those sectors are bad that one 
  or the other will or won't work.  It's a suggestion to try another 
drive just to isolate the issue.

Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If fdisk /MBR clears the boot sector does that mean it works?  I will
> reformat the drive and see if it boots DOS?  Will that prove anything?
> 
> Additionally, I can also try to see if RH9 installs...
> 
> Dan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenny Speer [mailto:kenny.speer at comcast.net]
> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 9:37 PM
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases ; For testers of
> Fedora Core development releases
> Subject: RE: Installation of FCT2: GRUB interactive on
> 1stinstallandGRUBhangs on 2nd install
> 
> 
> Personally, it sounds like the first few sectors of your drive are bad.
> Hoow old is your spindle?
> 
> ~kenny
> 
> (Sent from Tungsten ¦ C)
> 
> "Daniel B. Thurman" <dant at cdkkt.com> wrote:
> __________
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I did exactly what you said, to:
>>1) Win98 fdisk /MBR
>>2) grub-install /dev/hda
>>
>>rebooting resulted:
>>
>>Missing operating system
>>
>>It appears that I am not performing Grub-install correctly
>>or that it is broke?
>>
>>I went back to rescue, and interactive grub:
>>root (hd0,0)
>>setup (hd0)
>>
>>Same result:
>>
>>Missing operating system
>>
>>What is going on?  Is grub able to create the proper MBR???
>>
>>Ok... I have scratched everything again, and installed for
>>the 4th time, from the beginning and tried the whole
>>installation again....
>>
>>Guess what...  a reboot after installation resulted:
>>
>>Missing operating system
>>
>>I tried the grub-install /dev/hda.  Same problem.
>>I tried interactive grub:
>>root (hd0,2) <--- note: the partitioning changed to /dev/hda3
>>setup (hd0)
>>
>>GRUB IS NOT INSTALLING THE MBR!!!!!  GRUB IS BROKEN!!!!
>>WHAT IS WRONG WITH GRUB!!!!
>>
>>Best regards,
>>Dan
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Patrick [mailto:fedora at puzzled.xs4all.nl]
>>Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 12:41 AM
>>To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
>>Subject: RE: Installation of FCT2: GRUB interactive on 1st install
>>andGRUBhangs on 2nd install
>>
>>
>>On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 06:10, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>Sigh... the 3rd time is a charm?  Unfortunately not. I took all
>>>the defaults.  FCT2 does NOT like Linux Systems 501.  Sheesh.
>>>I think I am going back to RH/debian unless someone has a brilliant
>>>idea what the jeepers is going on and tell me how to fix this.
>>>
>>>Dan
>>
>>Just a wild thought: get yourself a bootable Dos floppy, boot it and do
>>fdisk /mbr to absolutely destroy any mbr stuff lurking around.  Then
>>reinstall grub with grub-install.
>>
>>Good luck,
>>Patrick
>>
>>
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