That's very strange. I've never had a GRUB installation failure of any kind. Well in any case, if you are still having trouble installing the version of GRUB you want, you could try running something like this to manually blast GRUB 2 off of your MBR:
dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda bs=<your Hard Disk's Block Size in KB> count=439 Be sure to immediately install a bootloader onto your system after running such a command. I would also wait for someone else in the mailing list to double check my suggested command, as getting the incantation of dd wrong can not only blow out your entire MBR, but also result in data loss. On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:57 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:35:37 -0800 > Robert Miesen <[email protected]> dijo: > > > Out of curiosity, did you make sure to format the non-data storage > > partitions? If you didn't format partitions such as /, you will almost > > surely end up with leftover programs and configuration files from the > > previously installed GNU/Linux distribution messing up your new install. > > There were only two partitions, / and swap. When I installed Unstable I > told the installer to use the whole hard disk. It created and formatted > a new / and a new swap. > > The old Grub was in the MBR, and the installer should have overwritten > it with the new Grub. During the install I had a choice of Grub 2, Grub > 1.5 or LILO. I started with 2.0, and when I got the error message that > Grub had failed I used the back button to try 1.5. That failed also, so > I went back again and used LILO. But when I installed LILO I told it to > install it to sda1 instead of sda, thinking that doing so would make it > easier to fix later. That was a big mistake because it left me with a > messed up Grub 2 in the MBR. And, unlike Grub 1.5 that I am familiar > with, repairing a broken Grub 2 is challenging. The available commands > are useless and there is little on the net in the way of help or > documentation. I'm sure that will change in the future, but for now, > Grub 2 is just not ready. > > It's really annoying when an install takes an hour and a half over the > net, and then screws up at the very end, leaving the user with an > unbootable system. > > I was so bummed at Debian and all the problems I have had with it that > last night I installed Fedora 12. As expected, package management sucks > compared to what I have been used to in Ubuntu. But otherwise it is > very nice and I have not had a single major problem so far. And I note > that it installed Grub 0.97, not even 1.5 that has been out for a long > time. > > As I educate myself to the RPM way of doing things, I am hoping that > the package management suckage will diminish. Fedora 12 does come with > a nice GUI Add/Remove Packages utility, but it's not nearly as fully > featured as Synaptic. I need to figure out repositories; that is, I > assume there is a sources.list file somewhere, but I need to figure out > where there are other repositories and how to add them. That will be > today's educational adventure. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Luck is believing you are lucky. -- Tennessee Williams _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
