[ale] Grub install hanging

[greg.freemyer at gmail.com (Greg Freemyer)]

On 11/30/05, Harper Ennis <harperennis at gtconline.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 19:03 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I have a test machine that has multiple boot partitions.  I prefer to
> > use grub to manage it.
> >
> > I installed Win2003 on it recently and that blew away grub.
> >
> > I'm used to that and simply boot from CD into rescue mode and run
> > "grub-install /dev/hda3" where hda3 is my main SUSE 10.0 partition.
> >
> > For some reason, grub (called by grub-install script) is freezing.
> >
> I think that starting grub and not grub install will clear this up.
>
> try
> #grub --no-floppy
>
>  the --no-floppy should stop the hang. I have had problems with
> grub-install myself.
>
> from the grub prompt type
>
> root (hd0,2)
>
> setup (hd0)
>
> that should install it for ya, be Sure to check grub.conf to make sure
> its set to boot windows.
>
> > kill -9 brings it back to life, but I really want to do the grub-install
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks
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Thanks,

That did the trick, but even with --no-floppy it took a long time to
give me a grub prompt.

At least several minutes (I stepped out of the room for an hour or so
and had a prompt when I got back.)

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century