Grub: (fd0),(hd0,x) fine, but (hd1,x) not fine

[Ram Chandar]

Hi,

I use the 0.92 ext2fs image from the Grub site.

Every thing works fine if I operate Grub from floppy or 
the first hard disk.

For eg: I have a menu item.

title MBR of the First Hard disk (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd0)
chainloader (hd0)+1

This menu item boots fine when booted from Floppy,
and an installation of grub on (hd0,6) ext2fs,

But reports 'Error 25: Read Error' when tried 
from (hd1,6) reiserfs, (hd1) MBR with root on (hd1,6),
and (hd1,8) ext2fs. And to add to the confustion
it sometimes work. 

Incdently if I put it on (hd1) with root on (fd0)(;),
it works fine. 

I also have the following Menu items

title Windows XP 
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

title Windows 98
rootnovierify (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1

title NetBSD 1.5.1
rootnoverify (hd0,3)
chainloader +1

Among these Windows XP always work, the other two only 
rarely work. 

All other OSes from the (hd1) works just fine.

I have:

title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
bootloader +1

title Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Woody) (Chainload the boot sector)
rootnoverify (hd1,6)
bootloader +1

title Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Woody) (Direct Boot)
root (hd1,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-k6 root=1647 apm=on reboot=w
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.19-k6

title Red Hat Linux 7.1 (Chainload the boot sector)
rootnoverify (hd1,7)
chainloader +1

I'll be glad to provide any more info.

Ram Chandar.