[SATLUG] re: dumb and dummer or CRS

[Glenn F. Boswell]

*Boz wrote:

>I'm starting to feel dumb and dumber. I've installed FC6  on hdb5 on a
>250G drive and asked for grub to be in  the mbr of  hda. It will go into
>XP every time. I checked the grub.conf (with knoppix) and all is
>correct.  
>Drives all ide:hda is primary channel 1, hdb is secondary channel 1 and two
>DVD drives are primary and secondary on channel 2.
>Did I miss something really dumb here? Go ahead and flame me I'm wearing
>asbestos today.
>
>BTW How many  got one of the WalMart specials? I almost  ventured out
>myself.
>
Samuel Leon*  responded:

>Interesting, all I know is that if windows is still loading then NTLDR 
>is still in the mbr of hda then.  Perhaps try running grub again?  I'm 
>more used to lilo so I don't know too many grubs commands to help you 
>there...
>
// I forgot to add that since the install I've never seen the grub menu 
even on the reboot to finish, ie. I never did the second step of the 
install may be a clue. Got me thinking about a grub-install, Thanks


*Robert Pearson*/ responded:/

>If you never see a GRUB menu and you are sure FC6 is the first boot
>option (default 0) in grub.conf, or is that /boot/grub/menu.lst?, then
>I second Samuel's suggestion to re-install GRUB on /dev/hda. Can't
>hurt anything...
>
// great idea: I booted fc6, linux rescue,  chroot /mnt/sysimage , 
grub-install /dev/hda  got a bios error:
 /dev/hdb5 does not have any correcponding BIOS drive

I searched for newer bios and installed, 2002 box now has 2003 bios, 
still old box, like the owner

repeated grub-install /dev/hda   same error

tried  grub-install --root-directory=/boot hd0  {fc6 lvm one drive}
this installed grub in MBR but gave the grub> 
hum what about  grub-install --root-directory=/  hd0
nope get  /dev/hdb5 does not have any correcponding BIOS drive

next grub-install --recheck    // allowed it to find all the drives
then grub-install --root-directory=/  hd0

Guess what it all now works ..............Yeah


*John Pappas*/ responded:/

>A possible alternative explanation is the BIOS.  Maybe it is set to
>different boot order. 
>
Now John you have been talking to my wife again........... :-)

Thanks guys for the quick and thoughtfull suggestions.

-- 
Glenn Boswell "Boz"      gboswell at accd.edu
San Antonio College  Dept. CIS (210)-733-2866

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