Cannot install GRUB fatal error

[Bruce Marshall]

On Saturday 14 July 2007, Matthew Clarke wrote:
> I didn't have exactly the same problem as you but: I do have a similar
> setup and managed to get ubuntu installed on sdb.  But in order to get
> it to work I needed to put the /boot partition on sda.  you can do
> this in the manual partitioning part of the install.
>
> apparently some BIOSs must have the bootloader on the first drive in
> the system (and also at the beginning of the drive).

I think you're wrong here....  The /boot partition has little to do with the 
INITIAL parts of the boot process and it can be almost anywhere.

It is the MBR (master boot record) which starts off the boot process and this 
normally resides on the first few sectors of sda...   or hda.

The MBR would contain the stage1 of grub and that stage would have the 
information as to where /boot/grub resides.   It goes there to get stage2 of 
grub and the boot process really begins....