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   Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:15:33 -0800   
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   Subject: Re: grub problems   
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   On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, V. T. Eric Layton wrote:   
      
   > ray wrote:   
   >>  Since I upgraded from 5.10 to 6.06 on my laptop I have not been able to   
   >>  boot from grub setup from that partition. I have another active install on   
   >>  another partition (Elive 0.5) and if I install grub from that partition it   
   >>  boots fine - but trying to boot from ubuntu's grub results in the initial   
   >>  boot screen not appearing and a message that the disk is either bad or   
   >>  disconnected. I have reinstalled grub to no avail. I recently replaced   
   >>  the hard disk with a larger unit and after copying everything back (I used   
   >>  partimage to copy to an external USB hard drive) the new disk acts exactly   
   >>  the same way. Any ideas?   
   >>   
   >>  thanks,   
   >>  ray   
   >>    
   >   
   >   
   > Ray,   
   >   
   > GRUB is only installed once on the MBR (master boot record) of each hard    
   > drive. You can't install GRUB on individual partitions. You can edit your    
   > active MBR GRUB (from whatever distribution) to load all your linux distros,    
   > regardless of their locations on different partitions.   
      
   Actually, you can also load GRUB on each partition as well as the MBR.    
   Then you can configure the instance of GRUB that resides on the MBR to    
   load the different instances of GRUB on the various partitions.   
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