Geom error

[eguizabal carlos]

To all.

New to grub. My intention is to double boot to DOS6.x and win2k.

Drive 1, partition 1: linux, 10MB (only to hold stage files and menu)
Drive 1, partition 2:  fat, 450MB
Drive 2, partition 1: hpfs for win2k, 4Gb

Created floppy; get to grub> prompt. From here I can boot to (hd0,1)
which is DOS, and to (hd1,0) which is win2k (here I do a remap). Works
without a hitch.

The problem is when I try to boot from drive 1, which es where grub is
installed. All I get is

GRUB Geom error

The geometry printed on the Maxtor 7225AV (old, very old) is 
c/h/s = 1002/16/52 BUT the one reported by the grub geometry command is
drive 0x80: c/h/s = 826/16/63. Is this a clue to the problem or just
a result of LBA translation?

This are the steps I use to attempt to install grub on disk1:

-> using small linux (slackware ZipSlack) copy stage1 and stage2 to
   /boot/grub/ (partition (hd0,0), (Ext2 type))
 
Reboot with floppy until the grub> promt is available
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)

stage1 exists ... yes
stage2 exists ... yes
stage1_5 exists ... no
Running install "... etc ... /boot/grub/menu.lst" succeded
Done
grub> reboot

Hardware is an old Micron, pentium III


I like the idea of using grub for this jub; many thanks in advance.

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