Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>  > => The workstation is then unable to boot like if the MBR had been
>  >    corrupted. The string "GRUB" is displayed and the boot process
>  >    stops here.
> 
> 
> I had the same issue with the word "GRUB" displayed only and then 
> hanging, in my system (but with IDE HD), and what I did was to boot from 
> the SL first CD, choose rescue mode, used "chroot" as a message was 
> displaying, to make the mounted partition a root one, and then just did 
> "grub install /dev/hdc".
> 
> 
> Now when booting, it displays

"GRUB loading stage1.5",

> hungs for a while 
> there, then displays a message like "GRUB loading, please wait...", 
> hungs for a while there too, and then boots successfully.
>