Double checking grub-install -- revisited ??

[William Case]

On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 17:32 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:43:04 -0400, William Case wrote:
> 
> > Hi;
> > 
> > I have started this thread again as a new thread.  The previous "Double
> > checking grub-install ??" lead off in all kinds of plausible directions.
> > I think I now have more of a focus.
> > 
> > To recap:
> > 
> > I am getting a double Fedora grub splashimage at boot.
> 
> What exactly does that mean?
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. 

> Can you hit keys to enter the first GRUB menu and stop it
> from booting any entry automatically?
No.  The image is incomplete in the first instance and disappers too
quickly.

> 
> > I have a dual
> > boot system with WindowsXP on sda and Fedora 9 on sdb. 
> 
> And what does your boot sequence look like? NTLDR on sda?
> Do you chainload from sda into sdb?
> And what does your sdb GRUB config look like? Is it really
> GRUB in the MBR of sdb instead of the boot sector of your
> boot/root partition?
> 
> > I have some
> > experience with installing grub but made a typo type mistake during a
> > grub install a month ago and I think (??) that might have been the root
> > of my double splashimage problem.
> > 
> > To check the mbr, I ran on /dev/sda:
> > ~]# dd bs=512 count=1 if=/dev/sda | od -Ax -tx1z -v 
> > 
> > it returned:
> > ...
> > 000160 7c be 85 7d e8 40 00 eb 0e be 8a 7d e8 38 00 eb
> > >|..}. at .....}.8..<
> 
> What does it print for the line at offset 0?
> 
[root at CASE ~]# dd bs=512 count=1 if=/dev/sda | od -Ax -tx1z -v 
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes (512 B) copied, 6.288e-05 s, 8.1 MB/s
000000 eb 48 90 8e d0 bc 00 7c fb 8e d8 be 00 7c 8e c0
>.H.....|.....|..<
000010 bf 00 06 b9 00 01 f3 a5 e9 00 8a be ae 07 b9 04
>................<
000020 00 83 c6 10 80 3c 80 74 09 80 3c 00 75 5d e2 f1
>.....<.t..<.u]..<


-- 
Regards Bill;
Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.2
Evo.2.22.2, Emacs 22.2.1