Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Summary: Unable to write on MBR Version: 0.91 Type: software bug
Message: Hello, I use Debian v3.0 rev0, so Grub v0.91 . I wanted to install GRUB on 2 machines (not the same). For each of them, I realize a different boot floppy which work. Then for one of them, I install GRUB on the hard disk with no problem. The boot from hard disk is OK. Everything is OK. Now is the problem. On the second machine, I could not do the same. I booted from floppy, then type the commands root and setup. Everything was OK, I got messages showing me that the process was OK. But when I reboot on the hard disk, I got an error. I did not even got the message "GRUB..." . Later I did a fdisk /mbr from a DOS floppy. Then I tried again with root and setup (several times) with different ways. The messages during the process were OK Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 16 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p (hd0,6)/boot/grub/stage 2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded Done. but it seems it did nothing to the MBR because Windows could boot. I also tried to install Grub via a third computer but with the floppy and hard disk from the second machine. I got good messages during commands root and setup, but bad boot with error message and no GRUB message. During my tests, I pay attention to take the files stage? and *stage1_5 from my binaries. Also, on my first machine, the root is on (hd0,5) instead of hd(0,0) and it works perfectly, so I think there is no reason for not working with root on (hd0,6). I think it is either a software bug or a problem with the disk from my second machine. I really like GRUB and I really want to install it. Thanks for help, Eric ---- Please send followups to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
