[0.5.96] "Error 29: Disk write error", when installing GRUB

[Thierry Laronde]

Hello,

I have made some tests via GRUB put on a floppy (Linux or FreeBSD on
first hard disk, Windows on slave : everything went fine), and I'm now 
willing to install it on the MBR of my first IDE HD.

/boot is a standalone partition (hd0,0). I'm using GRUB shell under
Debian/GNU Linux, potato, kernel 2.2.14. Here is the result of the
commands :

grub> root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

grub> kernel /vmlinuz-2.
Possible files are: vmlinuz-2.0.36 vmlinuz-2.2.14

grub> kernel /vmlinuz-2.2.14
  [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x800, size=0x8963a]

grub> setup (hd0)
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
 Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes
 Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes
 Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
 Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"...  15 sectors are
 embedded.
 succeeded
 Running "install /grub/stage1 d (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p
                   (hd0,0)/grub/stage2"... failed

 Error 29: Disk write error

 Any clue ?

 TIA,
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