Grub on MBR just won't "take"

[pardsbane at offthehill.org (Josh Pollak)]

Maybe I'm wrong here, but doesn't one of the partitions on the drive 
need to be marked 'Active'? Also, BIOS needs to know which drive to 
start the booting process from, so if you've got two drives, make sure 
the one your installed grub to is setup as the first drive your BIOS 
sees, and that its set to boot from it (sometimes called C: to the 
BIOS)

-Josh

On Jul 28, 2004, at 10:54 AM, Don Levey wrote:

>  wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 20:09:32 -0400, Don Levey <lug at the-leveys.us>
>> wrote:
>>> I've tried grub-install, and that reports a successful return code,
>>> but still no go.
>>
>> I didn't use grub-install, but I'm using grub. What I did is this:
>>
>> # grub
>> grub> root (hd0,0) [assuming you're using /dev/hda1 as your /boot]
>> grub> setup (hd0) [assuming the MBR in question is on /dev/hda]
>> grub> quit
>>
>> Then I edited /boot/grub/grub.conf:
>>
>> timeout 3
>> default 0
>> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>>
>> title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.7-r11
>> kernel /kernel-2.6.7-gentoo-r11 root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/hda3
>> init=/linuxrc video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr vga=0x31B
>> initrd /initrd-2.6.7-gentoo-r11
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>> Gordon
>
> Gordon,
> Thanks - I've just tried that again.  Grub tells me it was successful 
> in
> installing to the MBR on (hd0,0).  However, it's still not being found 
> when
> rebooting, and so we're not even getting to grub at all.  Ever hear of 
> a
> hard drive that you just can't boot from?
>  -Don
>
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