[Solved] BAD IPL after install

[brogers]

I just installed Mageia 5 and after rebooting I get this error:

Bad IPL
Any key to reboot

Did I miss any thing in the install?

Note my machine has two hard drives.
How can I be sure which one I boot from as to which one I install Mageia on?

[doktor5000]

Seems to be that the bootloader didn't get installed properly. Which bootloader did you choose and where did you choose to install it, and what install media did you use?
See e.g. https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11708 or https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11708

[brogers]

If I recall, I used the default loader.
I used the iso image downloaded from the mageia.org website.

I recently installed on a single drive machine & it worked fine.

Is there any secret on identifying what drive to install the boot loader on?

[gohlip]

Most likely, you're using grub-legacy.
"Bad IPL" means it (grub) cannot find stage1

When grub menu appears, press 'c'
It will give you a grub prompt (grub> )
At grub prompt,

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grub> find /boot/grub/stage1

Does it give any output?
Say it give output of (hdx,y), then at grub prompt,

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grub> root (hdx,y)
grub> setup (hd0)

Now after doing above and setup goes fine, if error message now changes to "error 15",
modify the set root line from (hd0,x) to (hd1,x) or vice versa.
When booted, modify that root line in /boot/grub/menu.lst.

If it (find /boot/grub/stage1) does not give any output, then you have to reinstall your bootloader.

ps: 'c' to go to grub prompt
'e' to modify
'b' to boot

ps: if installed using grub2, you won't have this problem.

[brogers]

Thank you
Question:
When does the grub menu appear?
Is it after the BAD IPL Error, or do I have to do something as part of the install?

[gohlip]

If Mageia is the only OS, the menu will not appear.
When starting up computer, press the 'esc' key to bring up the menu.
Continuously tapping 'esc' keybwould be better.


ps: I think it's the 'esc' key.
If I am wrong, somebody please correct.
A confirmation would be nice also.

[brogers]

I don't recall how I exactly found out -- but I was able to discover what drive my OS was installed on.
I then used the BIOS settings to boot from that drive 1st [after any removable media].
The system boots fine now.