> grub> root (hd0,0)          (Specify where your /boot partition resides)
> grub> setup (hd0)           (Install GRUB in the MBR)
> grub> quit                  (Exit the GRUB shell)

Might pay to also check that the /boot partition is active, but I'm
unsure whether it's necesssary. Might depend on whether the boot loader
goes to MBR or elsewhere (my raid1 system seems to have it on /boot, not
in the MBR).

> never actually needed a system.map or device-map, don't even know what
> they are!

Mapping between /dev/X and grub's hdX number scheme (gee I love it - why
not add one more layer of complexity for no gain, and call it hd0
instead of hda - must have been invented by a geek ;) ).

My SUSE's grub always finds the map itself, as I said Red Hat's doesn't
hack it, so spends minutes(!) on each startup probing the system, unless
you tell it where the map is.

Volker

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