-- Le (On) 2010-03-18 +1100 à (at) 10:13:14 Michael Mansour écrivit (wrote): --

> 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.
> 

       Hi,

       and to know on which (disk,partition) it is, I first do:

       grub> find /grub/stage1

       it should answer (hd0,3) in your case (/dev/hda4) as grub start 
       to number from 0.


-- 
                 Best regards,
                               Robert FRANCHISSEUR

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