Grub Not Starting

[Tim Writer]

lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart Sorensen) writes:

> 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.

FWIW, on my Inspiron 1100, the hard disk is actually hdc, the CD-ROM is hda.
Debian suggested this in my lilo.conf:

    # Overrides the default mapping between harddisk names and the BIOS'
    # harddisk order. Use with caution.
    disk=/dev/hdc
    bios=0x80

Perhaps Grub has a similar option or maybe you need to use hd1.  Just a
thought.

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