GRUB Problems with Dell Optiplex GX1

[Garrett Cooper]

backyard wrote:
> I'm having problems installing GRUB on my Dell
> Optiplex GX1 pentium3 500 BIOS A10. I'm setting this
> server up for a friend and not having GRUB isn't the
> biggest deal; I just wanted to have a nice
> inappropriate boot image when they turn it on... 
>
> It will boot from a floppy, but installing it to the
> hard drive seems to corrupt the root filesystem. It
> claims to install fine and during boot will load
> grub_stage1.5 from the disk, but instead of loading
> stage2 it begins to boot the system, but the console
> font has become completely corrupted, and I'm not
> certain if anything else has. It will boot, and
> appears to function but the font is messed up.
>
> Has anyone else had issues with the particular Dell
> and GRUB? I've never had problems with GRUB before
> this machine. I'm at a loss, any help would be
> appreciated. It would be nice to get GRUB on this
> thing, but if I can't oh well.
>
> -brian
>   
FreeBSD folks tend not to use Grub, but some of us do use it as opposed 
to FreeBSD's bootmanager.

Please post the steps you use to install grub and the output those steps 
give you, and your grub.conf.

-Garrett