Re: Installing Grub

[Marco Gerards]

address@hidden writes:

> Hi, I'm curious if the boot floppy procedure (cat stage1 stage2 > /dev/fd0)
> would work on a hard disk (cat stage1 stage2 > /dev/ataraid/d0).  If so, would
> grub be able to install over itself (ie setup (hd0) ).  The reason I ask is 
> that
> I have a grub boot floppy made with the above method and it works great,
> however, after installing grub to my MBR and rebooting it doesn't work.  It
> seems to load stage1_5 fine, but then it says its loading Grub please wait, 
> but
> nothing ever happens.  My suspision is that my bios is playing some tricks 
> with
> the order of the disks so grub is having trouble finding stage2 and menu.lst. 
> My motherboard has an integrated Highpoint 370 IDE RAID controller with 2 hard
> drives attached in a RAID 0 setup.  With the boot floppy the drive shows up as
> (hd0) and I can load the kernel and boot fine.  I'd like to get a grub shell
> when I boot from the hard disk so I can try to figure out if my bios is
> reordering the drives so I can set Grub up properly.

Well, I'm not sure how the GRUB installation on the harddisk exactly
works, but IIRC, the partition table is a part of the MBR and you will
lose it if you do this.

--
Marco