Installing grub to dual boot -- SOLVED

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Brad De Vries wrote:

> Problem solved.
>
> I must apologize to everyone on the list and especially those that
> responded to my original "problem." The reason I must apologize is
> because I'm apparently to impatient to wait for a process to
> finish. I was expecting that the "grub-install" command would
> execute in a matter of seconds and it actually takes about three
> minutes.
>
> I booted from the FC3 disk in rescue mode, chroot-ed into the
> automatically mounted linux partition and ran the "grub-install"
> command. The difference this time was that I was working on
> something else at the same time so I just let it run. When I
> finished the other project I looked back and the command was done.
> And it completed successfully.
>
> Thanks and, once again, sorry.
>
Glad to hear it, Brad.  Is this a floppy-less machine?  Grub likes to
scan for floppy drives and takes forever if one is missing.  There is
a command line flag to skip this check, at least for "grub" the command.

Let's do coffee again soon :)

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