Double checking grub-install ??

[TNWestTex]

William Case wrote:
> 
> Thanks for replying Tim;
> 
> On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 16:05 +0930, Tim wrote:
> 
> I was trying to avoid wasting peoples time with a long description.
> 
> When I first boot I get the Fedora grub splash screen/menu twice --
> besides that everything else boots normally.
> 
> About four weeks ago my commercial boot loader was blown away by the
> WindowsXP sp3 download and install.  Fine and good: that didn't surprise
> me.
> 
> I just installed grub.  During a first attempt at a grub install I had
> an ooops! So I just re-installed grub and everything seemed fine.
> Because it was an oops and not a confusion, I didn't pay attention to
> the mistake, so now a month later I have forgotten exactly what I did
> wrong.  Besides I thought I had recovered.
> 
> About a week ago (I don't re-boot very often), I noticed the Fedora
> grub splash screen appear for 1/2 second or less, then go blank and
> pause for a second or two.  Then a new splash screen appeared and
> everything progressed fine from there.  This occurs definitely during
> the grub stage of bootup. 
> 
> I didn't do anything then because I was going to fresh install Fedora 9
> with a new grub on the weekend.  Which I have done.  But the double
> splash screen still appears.
> 
> 

The double splash screen is normal with chaining multiple grub
installations.  The
short splashscreen is normal if the timeout parameter is not set or is set
to a small value.
Could you have a /boot on /dev/sda that is chaining to one on /dev/sdb? 
With 
a stanza in grub.conf like

title Other
	rootnoverify (hd1)
	chainloader +1

or 
title Other
	rootnoverify (hd1,0)
	chainloader +1

It is a clean way of handling multiple linux operating systems and letting
each handle its own 
boot and grub configuration.

Robert McBroom

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