Trying to reinstall GRUB into root partition - fixed

[Lewis Futrell]

>
> Subject:
> Re: Trying to reinstall GRUB into root partition
> From:
> "Alan McKinnon" <alan at linuxholdings.co.za>
> Date:
> Sat, 3 Jun 2006 06:24:43 -0400
> To:
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> To:
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>
> On Friday 02 June 2006 20:32, Lewis Futrell wrote:
>   
>> Here is my setup:
>>
>>
>>
>>             2 hard drives, 1 40 Gig IDE master (for my Linux
>> experimenting) and 1 160 Gig SATA (my Windows drive).
>>
>>
>>
>> In my BIOS boot sequence, I have the SATA drive the first bootable
>> HD.  When I installed Dapper from the live CD, GRUB went ahead and
>> 'installed' itself to the MBR.  I say 'installed' because instead
>> of changing the MBR of the SATA drive, it installed itself to the
>> IDE drive.  I would actually have liked for GRUB to ask me where to
>> install it instead of it assuming I wanted the MBR overwritten. 
>> The good news is that I can access Kubuntu by accessing the BIOS
>> boot menu and selecting the IDE drive as the bootable drive.  It
>> even added XP to the menu and XP boots.  I simply want GRUB to
>> install itself to the root partition so I can use the GAG boot
>> loader on my SATA drive to access all my various OS installs.  Any
>> ideas?
>>     
>
> You mention the GAG loader and at least a Dapper and Kubuntu install 
> so I will assume you want a GRUB for each Linux OS right?
>
> If you can boot into Dapper (let's say it's /dev/hdb6), run this:
>
> grub-install /dev/hdb6
>
> If you can't boot Dapper then boot Kubuntu and mount Dapper somewhere:
>
> mount /dev/hdb6 /mnt/dapper
> grub-install /dev/hdb6 --root-directory=/mnt/dapper
>
> The --root-directory option is for grub to find the correct files in 
> boot/grub/*. The default is to look in / which is obviously wrong if 
> you are running one OS and installing grub for a different one.
>
> Hope that all makes sense..

It made perfect sense.  Thanks for the information.  I did have to do 
one thing else.  In the drive map file (/boot/grub/(forgot name of file) 
I had to switch the mapping of /dev/hda and /dev/sda.  Once that was 
done GAG worked with the install.