Michael & Colleen McDonald wrote:
You've got all the symptons of the problem I has a few weeks back. I still haven't had time to document the problem.
Very briefly it was 1. copy the MBR of hdb1 to a file (in a FAT32 partition ... /dev/hda5) accessible by the Windows system (used Knoppix for that) and then into the main Windows partition (NTSF) 2. Add a line to the Windows boot.ini to boot from this file.
this seems to me to be a bit hackish way of using windows bootloader to do grub's job I tend to agree with Matt Brown in that the problem is with the install command I have a similar setup and have had no problems with grub as a bootloader as long as you are aware of grub's hdd notation ie hda is hd0 and not hd1. the command grub-install /dev/hda should do the job, if not it sounds like you've read the documentation and should be able to sort it out by installing grub into hd0 rather than hd1