Hi,

> Years of Debian esperience, new to SL, 3rd  attempt at installing 5.4.
> 
> I specify that grub should be installed in the root partition, in my 
> case
> 
> /dev/hda4.  I use GAG as pure boot selector, each OS has its own bootload
> er
> on-partition.
> 
> Due to history, /dev/hda4 is the second primary, right after hda1 on 
> the disk.
> 
> I decline to rearrange partition order, and also decline to add 
> other OS' s to the SL grub boot menu as proffered by installer.
> 
> On 1st boot I consistently find no bootloader on /dev/hda4.  Other 
> OS's b oot fine.
> 
> Booted rescue twice, chrooted to root partition, I see the 
> fileysytem whe re it should be - i.e. the system seemingly doesn't 
> get confused by partitio ns not being in order.
> 
> Attempted this:
>           grub-install /dev/hda4
> 
> I repeatedly get this message:
>           error reading stage 1

There are a couple of ways you get get grub onto a drive. When the above
doesn't work for me I use the grub manager (loaded from another disk) and do:

grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)

Obviously you'd need to adjust those values to suit.

Regards,

Michael.

> I failed to find references to this on the list.
> Is this a known problem?
> Did I miss something in the archives?
> 
> TIA!
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