"Mike" <someone@your.house> wrote in message
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> "m.marien" <mm AT RiverCityCanada DOT com> wrote in message
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>> "Mike" <someone@your.house> wrote in message
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>> >I installed WinXP, Slackware, and Fedora Core. I installed Fedora last
>> > hoping that grub would install and detect everything. The grub.conf
>> > file
>> > appears to have everything in it, but I have a bigger problem. When the
>> > computer starts up and the bios finishes the last thing that displays
> is:
>> >
>> > GRUB
>> >
>> > The computer stops there. alt+ctrl+del doesn't work, I have to turn it
>> > off.
>> > I'm using a Promise TX2000 raid adapter in a Raid3,0 array (3 drives)
>> > Linux
>> > detected the drives as hde, hdf, and hdg. Windows is on hde, Fedora on
> hdf
>> > and Slackware on hdg.
>> >
>> > How do I manually install Grub or LiLo?
>> >
>> > TIA
>> > Mike
>> >
>>
>> There are a couple of ways to reinstall GRUB. One is with the
>> /sbin/grub-install script. Just specify which device is your boot device
>> or --help for options. The other is manually. Type /sbin/grub at the
> command
>> line to enter the grub command line. Specify the root directory partition
>> and then use setup to install the files:
>>
>> [root]#grub
>> grub> root (hd1,0)
>> grub> setup (hd0)
>> grub> quit
>>
>> This specifies that the first partition on drive 2 (/dev/hdf1 in your
> case)
>> is where the root is. And then installs grub to the MBR of the first
>> drive
>> (/dev/hde). Grub starts counting the drives from zero.
>>
>> If you installed GRUB to the Fedora partition, then setup (hd1,0) would
>> be
>> the command to use.
>>
>> The problem may also be the RAID is confusing GRUB.
>>
>>
>
> If the RAID is confusing GRUB, then WHAT?
>
>

Then you probably can't use it for booting your system without some
tweaking. That's maybe why it didn't install properly. You're at the point
of installing so losing the installs shouldn't be a big problem.