I'm using a multiboot system on an Asus EeePC 901 and, in general, everything works fine.
However, I've run into a problem that seems to require me to upgrade the version of Grub in the MBR.
This machine came with Xandros Linux already installed and the Xandros grub is in the MBR.
I have subsequently installed some other (mostly Linux) OSes in different partitions and all of them boot through the Xandros Grub in the MBR.
I've just done a Frugal Install of Tiny Core Linux but the Xandros Grub refuses to recognize the /bzImage in the kernel line in menu.lst.
However, if I go into a Grub terminal in Ubuntu on the same machine, the TC /bzImage is recognized without problem.
So,what I would like to do is:
1)Check that the versions of Grub in Xandros and in Ubuntu on this machine are indeed different. So is there a command for this?
2) Assuming that the Xandros Grub is indeed an earlier version, I need to upgrade Grub in Xandros. I have tried a grub-install but get a strange error message repeated four times which says:
Grateful for any help

Not sure I can help you, but here are two thoughts:

(1) grub not finding or recognizing a file or filesystem at boot time is different from grub finding it after boot. So you may be comparing apples and oranges when you compare the ubuntu terminal grub output and the boot time. If you boot grub and use it interactively at boot time, you might have better luck in debugging why it doesn't like your bzImage file. Try "find bzImage" at the grub prompt to make sure it is where you think it should be.

(2) Sometimes grub-install doesn't work. If you can manually install with a boot floppy, that would be more reliable. But your Asus EeePC probably doesn't have a floppy; if it has a CD disk you can try using the "SuperGrub" CD.

Hope that helps

Thanks for your reply.
Yes, perhaps the evidence that I cited would not stand up in a court of law, but there's more. For reasons that would take some time to explain, I have installed Tiny Core Linux twice on the EeePC 901 -- once as a frugal install and the other as a "traditional" HD install. Only the latter boots. When I try to boot the frugal install, I get an error 2 (bad file or directory type) which apparently appears when the file is "missing". However, it is there but seems not to be seen. This ties in with what Grub (after boot in both cases) tells me; in Ubuntu both bzImage's are seen; in Xandros only the one that boots.
So, essentially, everything points to the Xandros grub not seeing the bzImage in the frugal install.

No, I don't have either a floppy or a CDROM drive on this machine. However, can probably set up SuperGrub on a USB-key that will do the job.

from grub (as run as root on a console / CLI)

# grub
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit
#

(or was it exit)

Puts it on the MBR of hd0 (/dev/hda)(most of the time).
With stage 2+3+??? on /dev/hda1.