[sf-lug] Grub trouble

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On 11/9/07, Femtoghoti <femtoghoti at gmail.com> wrote:
> so my boot partition in grub-speak is (hd0,0) and windows lives on (hd4).
>
> if is setup grub on (hd0) i boot straight to windows and grub is never
> executed.  when i install grub on (hd4) and tell it that the linux
> boot partition is at (hd0,0) all i get is a "GRUB Hard disk error" and
> all execution stops.  i then have to restore the MBR to get the
> computer to boot Windows.
>
> so ... the question is any idea what is going on here?  or a direction
> to head down?

Check BIOS options -- it might have a search order booting issue.  It
may depend if your Linux is on the controller or the onboard HDD.
Worst case scenario, you just boot Linux using the Windows boot loader
:-)
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen