[Gllug] installing grub on the Mbr

[Stephen Harker]

john gennard wrote:
> However, I think my problem may be elsewhere. I put Grub on
> a floppy and got a Grub prompt. Asking to boot Hd0,0 or Hd0,1
> (that's W2000 or Debian) puts me into the installed O/S. But,
> Hd0,4 or Hd0,5 do nothing. So, it seems the installations

The Grub naming is not the same as the Linux kernel. I think you'll find
in your system that...

/dev/hda1 -> (hd0,0) Windows
/dev/hda2 -> (hd0,1) Debian
/dev/hda3 -> (hd0,2) Swap
/dev/hda5 -> (hd0,3) Ubuntu

etc.

Can you boot in to Knoppix from a CD and then run

fdisk -l /dev/hda

and let us know what it says please :)

Stephen
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