ask about grub-install

[ajay]

nothing just check 
grub-install /dev/hda

it wiil install grub (mbr) in first sector of your harddisk

if u use grub-install /dev/hda1
it may work and will install grub in first sector of your partition 

but former is better

try it!

rgds

ajay
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Nofriyadi Nurdam 
  To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux 
  Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 7:14 AM
  Subject: Re: ask about grub-install


  Thanks for the answer.
  i am confused with numbering of hda. There are hda0, hda1, hda2 and so on.
  Which one should i use?

  ajay <sysadmin at tivimtech.com> wrote:
    try 

    grub-install /dev/hda

    regards

    ajay
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Nofriyadi Nurdam 
    To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux 
    Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 4:20 PM
    Subject: ask about grub-install


    > Hallo Gurus,
    > 
    > I had Windows XP and RH9 on my computer and used Grub
    > as Boot Loader. My computer has a partitioned harddisk
    > of 40 Gbyte. 10 Gbyte is for drive C, 10 Gbyte for
    > drive D and the rest for Linux RH9. Windows XP was
    > installed in drive C. 
    > After installing Windows ME in drive D, the Grub does
    > not work any more and I can not use Windows XP and
    > RedHat9..
    > Now I want to use Windows XP, Windows ME and RH9
    > together and therefore I install grub with
    > grub-install. With RH9 insta! llation CD, I come to
    > linux rescue mode and have the prompt
    > sh-2.05#
    > I will type the command: grub-install [OPTION]
    > install_device
    > but in the manual, install_device can be a GRUB device
    > name or a system device filename.
    > My problem is : I do not know the name of GRUB device
    > or the filename of system device.
    > Could someone help me please to tell me what is the
    > GRUB device name or system device filename. How should
    > I name the GRUB device or the system device?
    > I want to know whether the device map file exist. In
    > manual, the file is called: /boot/grub/device.map
    > I typed: vi /boot/grub/device.map
    > but it was empty file.
    > How could I look at the file? 
    > 
    > Thanks in advance for your answer.
    > Nofriyadi Nurdam
    > 
    > 
    > 
    > 
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