setup(hd0,2) results in Error 22

[Hanno 'Rince' Wagner]

Hi,

since my LILO didn't want to work anymore I just tried to 
use GRUB as replacement.  First, I tried to install grub with a proper
menu.lst, but this didn't work so I tried it step by step.

Currently,  I am running linux-2.4.0-ac8
on my Laptop (an Compaq Armada M700) with a drive with the following
specifications:

hda: IBM-DBCA-206480, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: 12685680 sectors (6495 MB) w/420KiB Cache, CHS=839/240/63
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 >

I installed the Debian-Package of GRUB which has currently the Version:
Version: 0.5.96.1-0.1

On this machine there are two Operating Systems:
On partition 0 there is Windows 98 on FAT32, 
On partition 1 there is Drive D: of Win98 (FAT32).

Partition 2 is the Bootpartition, which is mounted under linux as /boot

Primary-Partition 3 is parted as the following:
Partition 4 is the Swap-Partition under Linux
Partition 5 is the Root-Partition under Linux
Partition 6 is the /usr-Partition under Linux
Partition 7 is the /var-Partition under Linux
Partition 8 is the /home-Partition under Linux

The fdisk-Geometry shows the following

Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 839 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       278   2101648+   b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2           279       557   2109240    b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda3           558       558      7560   83  Linux
/dev/hda4           559       839   2124360    5  Extended
/dev/hda5           559       591    249448+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda6           592       617    196528+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7           618       720    778648+  83  Linux
/dev/hda8           721       746    196528+  83  Linux
/dev/hda9           747       839    703048+  83  Linux


I installed the package and used grub-shell to install it:

    GRUB  version 0.5.96.1  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

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grub> root (hd0,2)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

grub> find /vmlinuz-2.4.0-ac8
 (hd0,2)

grub> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.0-ac8 root=/dev/hda6 vga=792
   [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0xe1b2d]

grub> setup (hd0,2)
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
 Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0,2) /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 p /boot/
grub/stage2"... failed

Error 22: No such partition


with debugm, I get the following:

grub> debug
 Debug mode is turned on

grub> setup (hd0,2)
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
 Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0,2) /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 p /boot/
grub/stage2"... <512, 0, 512>[8422352]<513, 0, 512>[8422353]<513, 0, 512>[84223
53]<514, 0, 1024>[8422354][8422355]<516, 0, 1024>[8422356][8422357]<518, 0, 102
4>[8422358][8422359]<520, 0, 1024>[8422360][8422361]<522, 0, 1024>[8422362][842
2363]<524, 0, 1024>[8422364][8422365]<526, 0, 416>[8422366]<597, 0, 512>[842243
7]failed

Error 22: No such partition


Any hints what goes wrong there? I looked into the FAQ about haveing an own
/boot-directory, but even the hints there (using /boot/boot/grub or 
cd /boot && ln -s boot .    didn't work.

Ciao, Hanno
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