Compaq Presario 1610 no boot

[TJ Rothwell]

I've ran 'grub-install /dev/hda' as well as grub with commands 'root
(hd0,0)' 'setup (hd0)' 'quit'

Then when I rebooted the machine, I'd get the error: "GRUB Read Error".

LILO works fine.

In the BIOS it has an option "Large Disk Access Mode" with options "DOS"
or "Other", I've tried both with the same result.  LILO works fine on
either as well.

I tried using a floppy to boot grub, but it results in a almost similar
message "GRUB Loading stage2Read Error".

Machine:
Compaq Presario 1610 (laptop)
PhoenixBIOS [Version: rw_1022.97  (11/18/1997)]

Thanks for any effort you put into this,
-- Thomas Rothwell


The Details:

Error message on boot:
GRUB Read Error

courage:~# grub --version
grub (GNU GRUB 0.93)

courage:~# cat /proc/ide/ide0/hda/geometry 
physical     3162/16/63
logical      790/64/63

[grub-shell: geometry (hd0)]
drive 0x80: C/H/S = 790/64/63, The number of sectors = 3187836, /dev/hda
   Partition num: 0,  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
   Partition num: 1,  Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82

courage:~# cfdisk -P t /dev/hda
Partition Table for /dev/hda

         ---Starting---      ----Ending----    Start Number of
 # Flags Head Sect Cyl   ID  Head Sect Cyl    Sector  Sectors
-- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -------- ---------
 1  0x80    1    1    0 0x83   63   63  744       63   3003777
 2  0x00    0    1  745 0x82   63   63  789  3003840    181440
 3  0x00    0    0    0 0x00    0    0    0        0         0
 4  0x00    0    0    0 0x00    0    0    0        0         0