Grub not properly installing.

[Dotan Cohen]

> Dotan, as Tommy pointed out, karmic does not use grub-legacy;
> grub-install at livecd does not transfer karmic *partition*s's grub to
> sdb1, it moves the livecd's grub, which is basically empty.
>

Oh, thanks, I did not realize that it was copying the LiveCD's grub.


> A workaround is to chainload your grub-legacy to that karmic partition's
> grub, (which is not exactly what you wanted), but will boot your karmic.
>  From there, try the sudo grub-install /dev/sdb
>

Thanks, I will google for how to do that exactly.


> But, Dotan, not sure about your bios setting to boot from sdb instead of
> sda. Do you have any boot in sda?
>

No boot on sda, as there was never an OS installed on that drive. Both
drives are IDE, by the way, but I forget which is master and which is
slave.

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