Hi,
I finally figured it out. This case is SOLVED! Thanks to all offering me help!
Here is my HDD layout at least in my mind:
/dev/hda 15GB IDE /dev/hdb 50GB IDE /dev/sda 9GB 10k rpm /dev/sdb 9GB 10k rpm
The problem is, that the BIOS internall set this order:
/dev/sda 9GB 10k rpm <== C: or first boot disk /dev/hda 15GB IDE /dev/hdb 50GB IDE /dev/sdb 9GB 10k rpm
So, I had to re-arrange the disk order in the BIOS so that /dev/hda is the first disk or C:
GO FIGURE!!! Sheesh.
BTW: Fedora is AWESOME so far!!!
Dan
-----Original Message----- From: Daniel B. Thurman Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 10:00 PM To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases Subject: RE: Installation of FCT2: GRUB interactive on1stinstallandGRUBhangs on 2nd install
Hi,
If fdisk /MBR clears the boot sector does that mean it works? I will reformat the drive and see if it boots DOS? Will that prove anything?
Additionally, I can also try to see if RH9 installs...
Dan
-----Original Message----- From: Kenny Speer [mailto:kenny.speer@comcast.net] Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 9:37 PM To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases ; For testers of Fedora Core development releases Subject: RE: Installation of FCT2: GRUB interactive on 1stinstallandGRUBhangs on 2nd install
Personally, it sounds like the first few sectors of your drive are bad. Hoow old is your spindle?
~kenny
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"Daniel B. Thurman" dant@cdkkt.com wrote: __________
Hi,
I did exactly what you said, to:
- Win98 fdisk /MBR
- grub-install /dev/hda
rebooting resulted:
Missing operating system
It appears that I am not performing Grub-install correctly or that it is broke?
I went back to rescue, and interactive grub: root (hd0,0) setup (hd0)
Same result:
Missing operating system
What is going on? Is grub able to create the proper MBR???
Ok... I have scratched everything again, and installed for the 4th time, from the beginning and tried the whole installation again....
Guess what... a reboot after installation resulted:
Missing operating system
I tried the grub-install /dev/hda. Same problem. I tried interactive grub: root (hd0,2) <--- note: the partitioning changed to /dev/hda3 setup (hd0)
GRUB IS NOT INSTALLING THE MBR!!!!! GRUB IS BROKEN!!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH GRUB!!!!
Best regards, Dan
-----Original Message----- From: Patrick [mailto:fedora@puzzled.xs4all.nl] Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 12:41 AM To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases Subject: RE: Installation of FCT2: GRUB interactive on 1st install andGRUBhangs on 2nd install
On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 06:10, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
Hi all,
Sigh... the 3rd time is a charm? Unfortunately not. I took all the defaults. FCT2 does NOT like Linux Systems 501. Sheesh. I think I am going back to RH/debian unless someone has a brilliant idea what the jeepers is going on and tell me how to fix this.
Dan
Just a wild thought: get yourself a bootable Dos floppy, boot it and do fdisk /mbr to absolutely destroy any mbr stuff lurking around. Then reinstall grub with grub-install.
Good luck, Patrick
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