On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Joao Clemente wrote:
> ...but when one is suposed to get the GRUB menu, I get simply a
> "GRUB Hard Disk Error" message
grub is "unreasonably" finicky ....
you have several choices..
1) boot into dos a:> fdisk /mbr
-- wipe it out and try grub-install again
-- another way to wipe out the bad MBR
dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 conv=sync
( the bs and count values are important == no typo allowed )
2) i always use lilo, whenver grub failed ..
3) install into the boot sector of the partition (/dev/hda1 ) instead
MBR of the disk ( /dev/hda )
- but the mbr must be empty too
presumably you can boot off of other media to try to install the MBR
with grub/lilo/loadlin/...
boot media == boot floppies, knoppix, deb cdrom,
where you can get into standalone rescue mode
reinstalling probably wont help until the cause of the grub problem
is solved
c ya
alvin
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