[PlanetCCRMA] Grub help

[Nigel Henry]

On Saturday 25 February 2006 21:08, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 11:21 -0800, Oded Ben-Tal wrote:
> > > (to do that you will have to boot from the fist cd with "linux rescue"
> > > and then chroot to the mount point of your install).
> > >
> > > I vaguely remember a similar problem with my laptop a long time ago. I
> > > think I did a grub-install --force-lba ("man grub-install") to get
> > > around the problem.
> >
> > I ran grub-install. It doesn't, it never finished to return to the rescue
> > shell (at least not after 3 minutes). so I halted it and now when i boot
> > the computer I get a screen full of 'grub's ?!
> >
> > any idea what can i do now?
> > I hope i won't have to install fc from scratch...
>
> Hopefully not. You don't say what option you used for grub-install. I
> would try reinstalling with just plain "grub-install" if you used
> --force-lba before. What messages does grub-install print? Exactly what
> do you see on the screen when you try to boot?
>
> -- Fernando

Hi Fernando. I know on my Gentoo install using grub-install, that I had to 
define the device that Grub was going to be installed on. I see on Oded's 
grub.conf that he appears to have a Windows install as well as FC3. May I 
suggest.
grub-install /dev/hda.  

Sorry if I'm interfering here. Nigel.
>
> > (before doint grub-install i tested the invisible menu option just for
> > fun, and using the arrows didn't bring up the kernel options. In any case
> > if this was the problem it would boot to the default rather than get
> > stuck).
>
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