Grub Not Starting

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:30:03AM -0400, Kareem Shehata wrote:
> Apologies in advance for the total newbie-ness of this question, but I
> can't seem to figure this one out.
> 
> I've managed to shrink the ntfs partition my Inspiron shipped with
> thanks to Fraser's tip.  I've set up swap on hda2 and Gentoo on hda3.  I
> followed the gentoo docs on setting up grub on the MBR (hda or hd0), but
> every time it boots I get:
> 
> GRUB Loading stage1.5.
> 
> 
> GRUB Loading, please wait...
> 
> Then nothing.
> 
> The good news is that I can boot both XP and Gentoo using a grub boot
> floppy and typing in my grub.conf manually.  That leaves me with the
> impression that there's something wrong with the way I'm setting up
> grub.  The docs said to do the following in grub:
> > root (hd0,2)
> > setup (hd0)
> 
> Any ideas?

On debian I do: grub-install /dev/hda and that's it.  I don't use grub
to install grub.

Lennart Sorensen
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