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. Regards, Michael. > I failed to find references to this on the list. > Is this a known problem? > Did I miss something in the archives? > > TIA! ------- End of Original Message -------