This is different from the setup Ashley has but the results are the same. I don't exactly know what that means but it certainly means something.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Otto Haliburton > Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 1:25 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: GRUB failure > > I have a dual boot system with HDA containing XP PRO and RH9 on HDB > GRUB > is the boot loader and it is written to the MBR or HDA along with the > XP > boot loader. I just removed HDB and guess what I got a black screen > with GRUB in the left hand corner. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Schwendt > > Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 12:59 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: GRUB failure > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:39:54 -0400, Kenneth Goodwin wrote: > > > > > what I am saying is that the MBR may be crafted or rebuild > > > by anaconda for the two drive setup disk info. > > > > It's grub-install/grub that creates stage1 based on the grub.conf > > created by anaconda. > > > > > "Grub-install". which I have not seen admittedly, may be based > > > on a MAKE environment strategy. IF SO IT ONLY REBUILDS The > > > MBR if and only if some local disk file has changed that a > > > dependency has been declared for. It may not check to see > > > if the hardware environment changed. By cleansing out the > > > existing config > > > info via a MAKE CLEAN or CLOBBER sequence , you should force > > > it to do a fresh > > > rebuild from scratch on the MBR program which should insert > > > the new single drive related information. ie SO FAR your > > > newly written grub > > > is the same image as the old grub that was on the mbr to > > > begin with. > > > > You can get rid of the generated files like this, preferably after > > removing slave drive and after booting with boot disk: > > > > rm /boot/grub/*1_5 /boot/grub/stage* > > grub-install --recheck --force-lba /dev/hda > > > > Option --force-lba might be interesting. > > > > - -- > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQE/Lp7Y0iMVcrivHFQRAoFkAJ0Z9nIV5jhIQgnmpDLuoJrbg43CgQCfcEWT > > LMknoC8k84oEiBhxdCtWxb0= > > =y8mK > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
