i've had problem with grub before, particularly with suse. try using lilo instead.
jason On Sunday 18 July 2004 14:58, William Villalba wrote: > Dear all, > > I've been trying for the last 4 days to install linux on my system , > but I am doing something that is preventing grub or lilo to be > installed in the mbr. This is the situation: I have two hard drives, > a 160 gb and a 80 gb. I used to have the 80 gb for data and the 160 > gb for the operating systems--windows xp, gentoo, and suse. I decided > to swap the 160 for data and the 80 for installing operating systems. > I did the usual: installed windows then went ahead to install > linux. Originally I planned to install SuSe 9.1--a network install, > and after finishing, everything seemed to be okay, but grub did not > work. I tried to fix grub by using the "rescue" option, invoking > "grub", root (hd0,x), and setup (hd0), but didn't work. I tried then > to install Mandrake, RedHat, Debian...with the same result. Of > course, I checked the bios and changed some settings--from "Enhance" > to "legacy", from "auto" to "user", and played around with different > possibilities. No luck! > Does anyone know what could be the problem? I thought that this was a > kernel 2.6 issue, but I guess not because I have tried installations > with kernel 2.4, but does not work either. My system is a Pentium > 4, with a Intel motherboard, a 80gb Maxtor drive and a Seagate 160 > drive--both ide. A while ago I had a similar problem and how I solved > it was by installing Linux first, then Windows and later using a > knoppix cd to restore grub. However, I am not too sure this is the > ideal solution, not to mention that this one have my head > spinning...and I can't solve it. Any help I will greatly appreciate > it. > > william -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
