On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Filippo Cattaneo wrote:

> Years of Debian esperience, new to SL, 3rd  attempt at installing 5.4.
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> I specify that grub should be installed in the root partition, in my case=
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> /dev/hda4.  I use GAG as pure boot selector, each OS has its own bootload=
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> er
> on-partition.
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> Due to history, /dev/hda4 is the second primary, right after hda1 on the =

Normally /dev/hda4 is the "extended" partition which holds other 
partitions.

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        2550    20482843+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2            2551        2805     2048287+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3            2806        5355    20482875   83  Linux
/dev/sda4            5356        9729    35134155    5  Extended

What does a

    fdisk -l

show?

-connie sieh
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> disk.
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> I decline to rearrange partition order, and also decline to add other OS'=
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> s
> to the SL grub boot menu as proffered by installer.
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> On 1st boot I consistently find no bootloader on /dev/hda4.  Other OS's b=
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> oot
> fine.
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> Booted rescue twice, chrooted to root partition, I see the fileysytem whe=
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> re
> it should be - i.e. the system seemingly doesn't get confused by partitio=
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> ns
> not being in order.
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> Attempted this:
>          grub-install /dev/hda4
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> I repeatedly get this message:
>          error reading stage 1
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> I failed to find references to this on the list.
> Is this a known problem?
> Did I miss something in the archives?
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> TIA!
>