GRUB not written to MBR - rewrite problem

[Claude Jones]

On Wednesday 25 January 2006 9:14 am, Claude Jones wrote:
> Thanks, Jesse. This worked, and GRUB got installed to the MBR, and the
> machine began a normal boot, but I ended up with a kernel panic. Looks like
> the trouble started with device mapper:
> 	Reading all physical volumes. This may take awhile...
> hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { Driveready SeekComplete Error }
> hdc: packet command error: error=0x50 { LastFailedSense=0x05 }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> cdrom: open failed
> 	No volume groups found
>
> and so forth, till
>
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>
> and then a whole bunch of numbers and symbols

Tried appending acpi=off but no relief
Similarly with nomce
Kernel still panics
-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA