[Tfug] Question Regarding Grub

[Chris Whitman]

I don't know if this is too little too late.
GRUB is a 2-3 stage bootloader. The main part won't fit in the MBR or
boot sector so Stage 1 is just a piece that transfers control to the
next stage. Basically that means it must know where the rest of the
program(stage 1.5 or 2)resides. This done with the "root (hd1,4)" 
command in the linux image section of the grub.conf file. That probably
doesn't do you much good yet since you don't have that yet and if you
did stage 1 doesn't know where it is. It might give you a hint as to
what is going on. You're best bet might be to manually install from the
GRUB shell. There are alot more commands availble to that then there are
parameters to the grub-install script.

On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 19:21, Tony Nepusz wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm having difficulty getting GRUB to install on my machine. I currently 
> have things set up as:
> 
> IDE 0,0
> hda1 - NTFS Windows XP
> hda2 - NTFS extended
> 
> IDE 0,1
> hdb1 - NTFS partition
> hbd2 - linux
> hdb3 - linux swap
> hdb4 - linux (debian files installed here)
> 
> I go to do a "grub-install /dev/hda" and I get the message "not found or 
> not a block device". My Google'ing hasn't come up with much to help me 
> here and I can't really figure out what I've done wrong.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated!
> 
> Tony
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