Hi all i finally fixed this after much sweat and toil.
i would perhaps classify this as a bug in the installer. again, it worked fine on my other machine just not this one. although i wouldn't consider this machine to be an extreme case as other distros i had on before debian worked with no problems. anyway, for whatever reason any attempt at installing grub was not working. it would still come up with GRUB GRUB looping infinitely on the screen. it wasn't installing correctly in the mbr and having trouble locating stage2. my setup: fstab entries: /dev/hda1 none (120GB) /dev/hda2 / /dev/hdd1 /backup (80GB) /dev/hdb1 /home (120GB) drive setup for hda from fdisk was as follows: Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 146 1172713+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda2 * 147 14593 116045527+ 83 Linux i tried grub-install and setup from grub with their various combinations all to no avail. finally the following worked: root (hd0,1) install /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0,1)/boot/grub/stage2 p (hd0,1)/boot/grub/menu.lst anyway, i have also posted complete text of what i tried and failed on linuxquestions.org at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&postid=927057#post927057 again, i don't know if this is a bug in the installer. either way, the above worked when nothing else would. now to just throw out that boot disk :). thanks heaps to all those that helped - it made me dig further. Takis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
