Grub loading stage2 error

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 09:43:20PM +0100, Perran (bongo) wrote:
> Thank you so much for replying Slash, but a colleague of mine suggested that I boot from my XP installation CD, run the repair console and run 'fixmbr'. I did this and it all worked wonderfully. I'm guessing that Fedora CD2 isn't bootable(?)
You are absolutely right. You cannot boot from CD2 in any distribution.
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> I am still a little confused though...
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> > Where did you install your grub and how did you do the installation?
> > I hope grub boot code is on /dev/hda (or HD0).
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> I didn't specify a location for installing Grub, I was never asked to. I'm guessing that it's on /dev/hdb along with everything else Linux-ie. Is that not where it wants to be?
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> Do I have to install Fedora on the primary drive (/dev/hda) or just grub?
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> Ta, Bongo
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Well actually you were asked during the Linux installation. The boot
program should always be installed on block 0 on the primary drive or
/dev/hda in your case. The Linux can be installed on a partition (not
block 0 which contains the partition table. Any partition will do as
long as it is identified correctly to grub. /dev/hdax, /dev/hdbx are all
possibilities, with x being a number from 1-4 in most cases.
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