I upgraded to grub-0.97-r1 and attempted to do root(hd0,0) and setup(hd0) and setup fails with this: Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+18 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage /boot/grub/menu.lst"... failed I downgraded back to grub-0.97 and setup succeeds correct with this: Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+18 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
try grub-0.97-r2
works now.
great, thanks for testing
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 111885 ***