Tue 08 Feb 2011 09:22:11 PM UTC, original submission:
When installing Grub in the beginning of a partition, later verification of the first 512 bytes of the partition shows nothing there, i.e., Grub is is installing to the Linux distro fine (In this case Debian Squeeze KDE AMD64), but is not writing itself to the parition table.
The version in question is 1.98+20100804-14.
The purpose of such an installation is to be able to boot Grub from the NT Loader (Windows XP Boot Menu), and this has not been a problem in previous versions/attempts.
The system in question is using an Intel ICH7 Southbridge, with one harddrive attached to the ICH7 SATA. The drive is split into three partitions, the primary for Windows, and the other Two for Linux EXT3 and Swap.
The install completes "successfuly" from the Debian Advanced Graphical Install, and the subsequent shell installation via "grub-install --force /dev/sda5" produce equal results. The "--force" must be used because Grub says something about installing it in this fashion being UNRELIABLE and not a good idea, but this has not been a problem at all previously, and what more, LILO installs in this manner just fine and boots fine from NT Loader.
For more information, please see this thread:
"http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=59981"
Thanks
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