Bug with separate boot partition and non-MBR install

[Thomas Lyon Gideon]

I am running Linux and I have two hard drives, a 13Gb Quantum Fireball 
(hda) and a 30Gb WD (hdc).  I have the drive geometry of both, if it 
helps.  My BIOS apparently does not support the WD, so I had to install 
EZ-BIOS into the MBR of both drives.  My partition table looks like:
/dev/hda1 ext2 on /boot (I copied the grub images here, in grub, so they 
are accessible from /boot/grub once Linux is loaded)
/dev/hda5 swap
/dev/hda6 ext2 on /
/dev/hdc1 swap
/dev/hdc2 ext2 on /home

I have been trying to install GRUB (verion 0.5.96.1 from the Progeny 
Debian distribution) into the boot sector of the first, bootable 
partition of the first drive (hda1 in Linux's terms, hd0,0 in GRUB's).  
I have to do this from a GRUB boot floppy chain loaded by EZ-BIOS (there 
is a prompt right after it loads to get to booting from a floppy).  
Booting directly from the GRUB boot floppy resulted in unrecognizable 
partition types.

I tried root (hd0,0) followed by setup (hd0,0), which reported success, 
then rebooted.  After EZ-BIOS loaded, then boot loaded GRUB, I get Error 
0x01 over and over again.  I looked this up and figured it had to be 
something about my separate boot partition.  I tried the symlink to boot 
as a child of boot (to get /boot/boot/grub from Linux, or just 
/boot/grub from GRUB).  I rebooted and tried the same two step 
installation again.  Again, it reported success, the only difference 
being it found the images in /boot/grub instead of /grub like the last 
attempt.  I got the same result on rebooting.  I also tried installing 
from the boot floppy using the --stage2 option, but this didn't seem to 
make a difference, either with or without the /boot/boot symlink trick.

Help!  I've read and re-read the troubleshooting section of the info 
file but can't see if there is something I am missing that would allow a 
valid and usable installation.  I use GRUB on another machine (Progeny 
installs it by default) without EZ-BIOS or a separate boot partition and 
it works great.  I'd really rather not re-partition my drives--I'd 
rather keep using LILO than re-partition.  If I can get GRUB installed 
at all with my current partition scheme, I'd be very grateful and happy.

Thanks!

Tom

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