I am having trouble getting grub to work properly. It works fine when I boot from the floppy. Here's what I have:
Primary IDE : old windows install - want to ignore this
Secondary IDE : Fedora Core 5
SATA 1 and 2 : mirrored drives using nvidia raid. This should show up as (hd2) for grub. When in Linux, both /dev/sd[ab] appear and also dm-1 through dm-10 which are the paritions on the mirror drives. Right now I don't want to mount the windows parititon on Linux - need to get it to boot first.
Boot order is normal, Primate ide, sec ide, Sata raid.
When it boots from the hard drive, it fails in stage1.5 with a error 17.
Here's the grub.conf file from /boot/grub on hd1

default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title WinXp
rootnoverify (hd2,0)
chainloader +1
title Fedora Core (2.6.16-1.2096_FC5)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet selinux=0
initrd /initrd-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5.img

It doesn't get far enough to load this file. In grub, I did this:
root (hd1,0)
setup (hd2)

No errors were reported.

What am I doing wrong.

It tries to boot and then fails in stage1.5. I've wasted a perfectly good Sunday on this - it has to be an easy fix.

This was from an upgrade from FC4 to FC5. I also updated the device.map and it is this:
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hda
(hd1) /dev/hdb
(hd2) /dev/sda
(hd3) /dev/sdb

Also once it sees the grub.conf file, will I need to map hd2 to hd0 to get windows to boot?

Thanks,

Hopefully this will go some of the way to helping. The key is in the mappings, because Windows needs to think it's on the first hdd.


http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=439864

Should it be "setup (hd0)" from GRUB boot floppy?