[Discuss] Grub

Alan Wardroper alanwardroper at gmail.com
Thu Jan 18 16:32:37 PST 2007


What do your partitions look like?
Are you sure grub's looking in the right place for its root?

I'd make a small /boot partition at the beginning of the first drive.

Some info on installing grub:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB-natively.html


On 1/18/07, Julian Phillips <julian at highspeedplus.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
> I need some help with an error msg "Grub disk error"
>
>
> Some background I am installing SME sever 7.1 www.contribs.org (I believe
> a
> redhat kernal) in a p4 box two brand new ide maxtor 300gig drives set on
> primary ide channel  1 jumpered master I jumpered slave . Software
> installs
> completely however on intial reboot I get the error msg stage 1 "grub disk
> error" How do I go about resolving this problem?
>
> Thanks in advance for any words of wisdom
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Julian
>
>
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