[TriLUG] slackware ... grub?

[Jason Faulkner]

Your new bootloader info probably isn't being written properly to the MBR.

Make sure to run grub-install /dev/foo (where foo=hd dev node)

--Jay

On 5/24/06, stan briggs <stan at stanbriggs.com> wrote:
> all,
>
> so i've been through the complete slackware 10.2 install three times now
> trying to figure out what i'm doing wrong. i thought that i was
> installing LILO incorrectly but even when i tried the installation
> without LILO i get the same symptom, which is:
>
> starts boot with bios-level hardware detection, pauses at the "boot from
> cd" prompt, and then proceeds to the word "GRUB" on a line by itself at
> which point it's a hard freeze.
>
> this machine had rh9 on it before with a small grub(?) partition which i
> removed (during my second installation) and added to the partition from
> which "/" is mounted.
>
> google/linux gave no joy.
>
> any ideas or suggestions?
>
> thanks,
> stan
>
>
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Jason Faulkner
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