OK, several hours later and a few re-installs of W2K (and a trip to the nearest internet cafe to get FREEDOS...) I'm still no nearer. Trying grub> root (hd1,0) (i.e. hdb1) setup (hd0,1) (i.e. hda2 - my 3 GIG W2K active partition) certainly boots into grub... but with no menu (I do have /boot/grub/grub.conf with the appropriate boot options. Trying to use the commands in grub (rootnoverify, chainloader +1) gives me the message that NTLDR is missing leading me to think that GRUB has simply completely wiped over the W2K boot loader on hd0,1. The only way out was to reformat and reinstall W2K on hd0,1 as fdisk /mbr naturally did nothing on this partition. Trying grub setup (hd0,0) produces the same problem but at least this time FREEDOS's fdisk /mbr did the trick without requiring a W2K reinstall. So no nearer the solution I'm afraid. Re. your suggestion:
the command grub-install /dev/hda
I would have thought grub was already installed since I can run grub from the RH9 CD|linux rescue option. Mark. On 30 Jul 2004 at 18:42, Jason Drake wrote:
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
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