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:fedora@puzzled.xs4all.nl] 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