GRUB Re-Install

[Matthew S-H]

NOTE:  I have some questions at the end, so if anyone does not care to
read by explanation of how I fixed the problem but is still willing to 
help
me, just scroll down.

I'm SOOO sorry to have wasted all of your time.
I just figured out a way to get my computer to boot temporarily.  I did 
the following:
Booted off the Live CD.
Pushed escape and then enter to go to the non-gui boot list.
Pushed "c" to go to a GRUB command line.
Typed it the following:
    root (hd1,9)
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-386 root=/dev/hdb9 ro quiet splash
    initrd /initrd.img-2.6.10-5-386
    boot

And viola!!  Everything booted fine.
Of course, I already had edited my /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst 
files
before-hand.

Anyway, now that that is all said and done, any tips on how to reinstall
GRUB so that I don't have to boot off the CD and type that at each boot?

I tried running the following:
[Note that I am now able to copy-paste because I can boot into my Hoary
installation and use Evolution.  It'll be much easier now for me to 
give all
of you the output I get from commands (before I was typing it all up 
manually)]
> [me]@[foo]:~$ sudo grub-install --recheck --root-directory=/ /dev/hdb
> Password:
> Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
> Due to a bug in xfs_freeze, the following command might produce a
> segmentation
> fault when //boot/grub is not in an XFS filesystem. This error is
> harmless and
> can be ignored.
> xfs_freeze: specified file ["//boot/grub"] is not on an XFS filesystem
> Installation finished. No error reported.
> This is the contents of the device map //boot/grub/device.map.
> Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
> fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.
>
> (fd0)   /dev/fd0
> (hd0)   /dev/hda
> (hd1)   /dev/hdb
> [me]@[foo]:~$

Anyway, I rebooted and got the same Error 15.
Any ideas on how to reinstall GRUB to the MBR or what I might be doing 
wrong?


~Matt
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