Fubar'd grub installing Debian Sarge

[David Niemi]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Niemi" <drn_temp2 at rogers.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 7:32 AM
Subject: Fubar'd grub installing Debian Sarge


>I tried installing debian to a second hard drive, not letting it touch my FC4 install except when it came to grub install, I 
>let it modify the grub installation (silly me) that took me a while to get going right in FC4!  Now I get an error 17, and 
>am trying to setup grub again using Knoppix 4 DVD, so far so good, gonna test it shortly.
>
> The point of this message: I installed debian to the second Hd (/dev/hdd1, I've also 2 SCSI RAID 0 disks which in FC are 1 
> & 2 = md0), should I mark the partition that I installed debian to as active / bootable as this partition contains the 
> Debian /boot ?  I didn't split up the install to numerous partitions, just one for simplicity (Ya Right).
>

Well, got grub fixed and to boot debian the rootnoverify(hd1,0) wouldn't work and had to copy over the root, kernel, and init 
statements from the debian install.  I kept getting error 13 messages from grub with the rootnoverify method, possibly I need 
to do a grub-install onto the hd?

Finding the the Fedora Anaconda installer is VERY NICE in comparison to debian, not very intuitive at all.