problem loading grub from HD

[Warren Pollans]

Hello,

I don't believe this is a bug - possibly a mis-configuration on my part.  Feel 
free to point me to another list.  

I'm having a problem getting grub to load from my HD (see #3 below).  I believe 
that my grub.conf file is OK (see #2 below).  In a sense my problem is academic 
since I have to reboot to change OS's - and it's no problem to leave my grub 
boot floppy in the drive - BUT it bothers me that I can't get this to work.  
Grub works fine on another box with three different flavors of linux

I have win2k and RH7.2 installed.  After the RH install (which installed grub) 
I have not been able to boot using grub.  I've included both the output from 
"fdisk -l" and the grub.conf file

NOTE:  I have /boot mounted as a separate partition - /dev/hda6 or (hd0,5)

(1) I can boot either win2k or linux from the grub commandline - I get there 
via a grub floppy to which I've dd'd stage1 and stage2, as described in the 
info docs

(2) I get the grub menu, from which I can boot either OS, by booting from 
another grub floppy to which I have cp'd stage1, stage2, and grub.conf

(3) All attempts to install grub on my HD have failed - I've tried all (I 
believe) of the suggestions in the FAQ and info docs.  Depending on which 
method I use the boot hangs with either "GRUB Loading stage2 ..." or "GRUB 
Loading stage1_5 ..." - the number of dots in the message varies

(4) One unusual piece of weirdness is that if I mv e2fs_stage1_5 to 
e2fs_stage1_5.bak "setup (hd0)" still finds even though it's not there.  
However, "find e2fs_stage1_5" fails, as it should


Thanks,

Warren
---------[ fdisk -l output ]----------
# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1826 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       701   5630751    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2           702      1825   9028530    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5           702       962   2096451    b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6           963       968     48163+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7           969      1760   6361708+  83  Linux
/dev/hda8          1761      1825    522081   82  Linux swap

--------[ /boot/grub/grub.conf ]-------------
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,5)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda7
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
debug
default=0
fallback=2
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,5)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title Red Hat Linux (2.4.9-31)
        root (hd0,5)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.9-31 ro root=/dev/hda7
        initrd /initrd-2.4.9-31.img

title Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10)
        root (hd0,5)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda7
        initrd /initrd-2.4.7-10.img

title Win2K
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1
        makeactive