Hello all,<div>I am attempting to install CentOS 5.5 on a recently donated home server (was Windows). I've tried installing twice; first, separating /boot, swap, /, /var, /usr and /home into different partitions, the second time choosing default layout. Both times have resulted in "GRUB Hard Disk Error" upon boot.</div>
<div><br></div><div>About the hard disk, it is a Seagate SATA drive. I do not have another drive to configure RAID.</div><div>The BIOS is set to:</div><div>Onboard PATA/SATA Adapters = Both</div><div>SATA mode = IDE</div>
<div>Onboard PATA/SATA Cofiguration = Enhanced Mode (???)</div><div><br></div><div>Upon booting into rescue mode, the file systems mount successfully and I am able to read data from files.</div><div>The current file structure is (default layout):</div>
<div>/boot</div><div>/</div><div>swap</div><div><br></div><div>grub.conf:</div><div>#boot=/dev/sda1</div><div>default=0</div><div>timeout=5</div><div>splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz</div><div>hiddenmenu</div><div>title CentOS (2.6.18-194.el5)</div>
<div> root (hd1,0)</div><div> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00</div><div> initrd /initrd-2.6.18-194.el5.img</div><div>title Other</div><div> rootmoverify (hd0,0)</div>
<div> chainloader +1</div><div><br></div><div>This is brand new from the installation.</div><div><br></div><div>My questions are, what am I missing? Bad configuration? Should boot=/dev/sda1 really be commented out?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Some pointers for manually installing and configuring grub would be great, as I am lacking experience in that area.</div><div><br></div><div>Any idea as to what is going on would be great!</div><div><br>
</div><div>Thanks in advance,</div><div>Rob</div>