RE: Installation of FCT2: GRUB interactive on 1stinstallandGRUBhangs on 2nd install

[Dan Thurman]

Hi,

If fdisk /MBR clears the boot sector does that mean it works?  I will
reformat the drive and see if it boots DOS?  Will that prove anything?

Additionally, I can also try to see if RH9 installs...

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenny Speer [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 9:37 PM
To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases ; For testers of
Fedora Core development releases
Subject: RE: Installation of FCT2: GRUB interactive on
1stinstallandGRUBhangs on 2nd install


Personally, it sounds like the first few sectors of your drive are bad.
Hoow old is your spindle?

~kenny

(Sent from Tungsten ¦ C)

"Daniel B. Thurman" <dant(a)cdkkt.com&gt; wrote:
__________
> Hi,
>
> I did exactly what you said, to:
> 1) Win98 fdisk /MBR
> 2) grub-install /dev/hda
>
> rebooting resulted:
>
> Missing operating system
>
> It appears that I am not performing Grub-install correctly
> or that it is broke?
>
> I went back to rescue, and interactive grub:
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0)
>
> Same result:
>
> Missing operating system
>
> What is going on?  Is grub able to create the proper MBR???
>
> Ok... I have scratched everything again, and installed for
> the 4th time, from the beginning and tried the whole
> installation again....
>
> Guess what...  a reboot after installation resulted:
>
> Missing operating system
>
> I tried the grub-install /dev/hda.  Same problem.
> I tried interactive grub:
> root (hd0,2) <--- note: the partitioning changed to /dev/hda3
> setup (hd0)
>
> GRUB IS NOT INSTALLING THE MBR!!!!!  GRUB IS BROKEN!!!!
> WHAT IS WRONG WITH GRUB!!!!
>
> Best regards,
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 12:41 AM
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> Subject: RE: Installation of FCT2: GRUB interactive on 1st install
> andGRUBhangs on 2nd install
>
>
> On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 06:10, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Sigh... the 3rd time is a charm?  Unfortunately not. I took all
> > the defaults.  FCT2 does NOT like Linux Systems 501.  Sheesh.
> > I think I am going back to RH/debian unless someone has a brilliant
> > idea what the jeepers is going on and tell me how to fix this.
> > 
> > Dan
>
> Just a wild thought: get yourself a bootable Dos floppy, boot it and do
> fdisk /mbr to absolutely destroy any mbr stuff lurking around.  Then
> reinstall grub with grub-install.
>
> Good luck,
> Patrick
>
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Installation of FCT2: GRUB interactive on 1stinstallandGRUBhangs on 2nd install

[Kenny Speer]

I'm afraid not.  Hard drives have a feature called 
"bad-block-remapping", if sectors go bad they are remapped internally on 
the drive to spare blocks used for this purpose.  I don't know enough 
about the DOS MBR and grub to tell you if those sectors are bad that one 
  or the other will or won't work.  It's a suggestion to try another 
drive just to isolate the issue.

Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  If fdisk /MBR clears the boot sector does that mean it works?  I will
>  reformat the drive and see if it boots DOS?  Will that prove anything?
>  
>  Additionally, I can also try to see if RH9 installs...
>  
>  Dan
>  
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Kenny Speer [mailto:[e-mail]]
>  Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 9:37 PM
>  To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases ; For testers of
>  Fedora Core development releases
>  Subject: RE: Installation of FCT2: GRUB interactive on
>  1stinstallandGRUBhangs on 2nd install
>  
>  
>  Personally, it sounds like the first few sectors of your drive are bad.
>  Hoow old is your spindle?
>  
>  ~kenny
>  
>  (Sent from Tungsten ¦ C)
>  
>  "Daniel B. Thurman" <dant(a)cdkkt.com&gt; wrote:
>  __________
>  
> >Hi,
> >
> >I did exactly what you said, to:
> >1) Win98 fdisk /MBR
> >2) grub-install /dev/hda
> >
> >rebooting resulted:
> >
> >Missing operating system
> >
> >It appears that I am not performing Grub-install correctly
> >or that it is broke?
> >
> >I went back to rescue, and interactive grub:
> >root (hd0,0)
> >setup (hd0)
> >
> >Same result:
> >
> >Missing operating system
> >
> >What is going on?  Is grub able to create the proper MBR???
> >
> >Ok... I have scratched everything again, and installed for
> >the 4th time, from the beginning and tried the whole
> >installation again....
> >
> >Guess what...  a reboot after installation resulted:
> >
> >Missing operating system
> >
> >I tried the grub-install /dev/hda.  Same problem.
> >I tried interactive grub:
> >root (hd0,2) <--- note: the partitioning changed to /dev/hda3
> >setup (hd0)
> >
> >GRUB IS NOT INSTALLING THE MBR!!!!!  GRUB IS BROKEN!!!!
> >WHAT IS WRONG WITH GRUB!!!!
> >
> >Best regards,
> >Dan
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Patrick [mailto:[e-mail]]
> >Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 12:41 AM
> >To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> >Subject: RE: Installation of FCT2: GRUB interactive on 1st install
> >andGRUBhangs on 2nd install
> >
> >
> >On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 06:10, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> >
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>Sigh... the 3rd time is a charm?  Unfortunately not. I took all
> >>the defaults.  FCT2 does NOT like Linux Systems 501.  Sheesh.
> >>I think I am going back to RH/debian unless someone has a brilliant
> >>idea what the jeepers is going on and tell me how to fix this.
> >>
> >>Dan
> >
> >Just a wild thought: get yourself a bootable Dos floppy, boot it and do
> >fdisk /mbr to absolutely destroy any mbr stuff lurking around.  Then
> >reinstall grub with grub-install.
> >
> >Good luck,
> >Patrick
> >
> >
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