I consistently get errors when I put grub in the mbr. This is an old HP-Vectra VL Series 4 - 5/133 with a 2111 MB HD Phoenix BIOS Version 4.05.9.00 - HP Rev. GT.07.24 (the latest available for this PC)
The BIOS reports a HD geometry of 4092/16/63 (LBA Mode enabled) The Grub Shell (Knoppix/Grub 0.93) reports 1023/64/63 number of sectors 4124736 Grub (booted from Floppy) reports 1022/64/63 When I set the geometry in the grub shell to 4092/16/63 and do a geometry (hd0) 4092 16 63 root (hd0,2) (a DOS VFAT12 partition with grub stage1, stage2, and fat_stage1_5) setup (hd0) Grub searches and finds /boot/grub/*stage* and embeds 15 sectors running embed /boot/grub/fat_stage1_5 (hd0) and runs install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p (hd0,2)/boot/grub/stage2 (both commands succeed) the grub shell installs grub in the MBR and on the next reboot I get a GRUB Read Error when I install grub from itself (0.93 booted from a floppy) with root (hd0,2) setup (hd0) everything works similar to the setup from the grub shell, but chainloader (hd0)+1 works and loads correctly the stuff from the hard disk, but on a reboot I get again a GRUB Read Error Including --force-lba on the setup command line does (for the last case) does not change anything. Oops, as a last thing, I tried the 'd' option for install, which I had overlooked until now, and it works ... Maybe my experiences are of some help for somebody else ... -- Bernhard Treutwein ------------------ Work: Bernhard.Treutwein at verwaltung.uni-muenchen.de Home: BdT at wildwein.de _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub