Grub not properly installing.

[NoOp]

On 12/27/2009 09:58 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
And then somewhere along the line, Goh Lip wrote... (you're missing your
attributions Dotan)

>> 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.
> 

My guess is that your mbr is on sda & that is probably also where your
grub resides. A quick test is to change the boot to sda in bios & see
what you get. I had a similar issue on a dual-boot system & rather than
changing the boot order in bios (after verifying this was the problem),
I instead reinstalled grub2 to _both_ sda and to sdb. I recall:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
6. If the GRUB 2 menus function properly the user can upgrade to GRUB 2
at any time by running:
and then I selected both sda and sdb.

This also might be of help:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2