Hello. Grub is working wonderfully at my workplace, but when I installed
it on the hard drive of one of my older machines at home, something very
bad happened.
Firstly, I used the standard installation procedure: I made a grub
floppy, booted from it, and entered the commands:
root (hd2,0) # linux is on the third hard drive
setup (hd0) # nice and simple!
The good news is that, once installed, grub loaded nicely from the hard
drive, gave that nice, clean menu (from (hd2,0/boot/grub/menu.lst), saw my
linux kernel on the third hard drive (hdc) and was able to boot linux no
problem. The bad news is that it nuked the partition table on the first
hard drive.
Thankfully, the only thing on the first hard drive was a win95 partition
that took the whole disk. Since I was able to boot to Linux, I was able
to redo the partition table on the first hard drive from there. All the
files appear intact.
HOWEVER, redoing the partition table on the first hard drive broke
grub. All that happens on booting from the hard drive now is that the
word "GRUB" comes up and my computer hangs.
I used the original grub floppy to reboot into linux and (sob!) reinstall
lilo. Lilo didn't fix it. On boot, my computer still prints the work
"GRUB" and hangs. I now can only boot from my grub floppy.
Any idea what's happening here? The machine is a pentium-100 with an AT
motherboard.
TIA.
-- Harmon S. Nine
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