Grub question (Ahem....help! Now it just says 'GRUB')

[Mark Knecht]

> > I'm confused about this.
> >
> > 1) I thought grub was in /dev/hda5.
> 
> grub.conf is.

OK, I now see Imissed on important piece of info. SC7 was installed in
the MBR, and grub was installed (I think) on hda5. The boot process is
to boot SC7, and then from SC7 choose Windows or Linux. If Linux, then
it jumps to grub and I get the grub choices.

> 
> > /dev/hda5 is marked as bootable, not hda7.
> 
> I think that's irrelevant to GRUB.  Only your BIOS cares about that.
> 
> > The machine has been booted since I moved hda5 and hda6. Why
> > did moving hda7 make any difference at all?
> 
> I don't know.  Rick probably does.
> 
> > 2) What do I do to get the machine booting again?
> 
> I'd say to boot with your distro disk #1 into rescue mode, let it
> mount your system on /mnt/sysimage, pop out the CD, and then
> 
>  chroot /mnt/sysimage
>  grub-install /dev/hda

This, I think, would put grub in the MBR, wouldn't it? If so that's
not what I want to do, or at least I think I don't. I still want to
boot SC7 first. How about

grub-install /dev/hda5? (Or should it be hda7 since that's the
partition that caused the problem when I moved it. That'swhat I'm
confused about. What did grub really put on /dev/hda7?

Or possibly grub really is on /dev/hda5, which moved successfully, but
then moving hda7 caused grb to get confused? Does grub look at the
actual location that the root partition exists at, or does it just use
the partition number. (What I thought...)

>  exit
>  exit
> 
> That should fix it.
> 
> > I've loaded Knoppix and all the partitions are there. They are in teh
> > same order they were in before. All the data appears top still be
> > there, although you cannot see grub so that part I'm not sure about.
> >
> > Guru level guidance warmly appreciated.
> 
> I don't qualify.  Sorry.  But let us know if that works.  I'm still
> learning.
> 
> > thanks,
> > Mark
> 
> Cheers,

Thanks Bob!