Problem with GRUB

[eag1e]

First of all I have 2 HD's. Linux is installed on hdb1, so I asked Sabayan 4.0 installer to install GRUB on /dev/hdb1... Oops - I have seen that there was no ability to install it to MBR on hdb, only on MBR on hda that is not acceptable for me. So I installed it onto bootrecord hdb1. After installation I actually wasn't able to boot Linux, so I started grub from console:

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# grub
root (hd1,0)
setup (hd1)
quit
# init 6

Well, now I see, GRUB but nothing more - there was no menus to choose, only... GRUB> prompt... I'm a beginner and don't know how to manage it now by myself... Installing Linux without GRUB bootloader willn't help me too...

[kodiakmax]

read my post here see if that helps

viewtopic.php?f=86&t=16709

[eag1e]

Betwix and between... Yes, I can start linux from SuperGrubDisk, but I still don't know how to do it directly from my HD. I have GRUB in my MBR, but I don't see the loader menu without SuperGrubDisk...
I tried to fix MBR as it shown in this guide http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/Howto_Fix_Grub "Choose Language & HELP ))" and I have a result: it installed GRUB onto my hda!!! The worster thing it can do - there are Windows installed with recovery function, so I need this MBR unchanged Now I need to recover it back, of course. The only one thing I need is to be able to load GRUB from hdb directly and start Sabayon from there...

[eag1e]

In addition: of course I have tried also advanced menu and recover GRUB onto hdb with and without stage 1.5. Here is the result:

[crisandbea]

In addition: of course I have tried also advanced menu and recover GRUB onto hdb with and without stage 1.5. Here is the result:

You modify the real_root=UUID.... with real_root=/dev/sdaX or hdaX with your real root partition.

[kodiakmax]

Is there any particular reason you do not want to use grub to boot windows?
I mean it is possible to chainload grub from the windows boot loader but I don't really see the point.

I don't understand what you mean by "there are Windows installed with recovery function, so I need this MBR unchanged"
Do you have more than one windows install? You can still use grub to boot them

Anyway, gonna need some more info from you.

I need output of
"fdisk -l"
and
"blkid"
without quotes
and then is your windows; xp or vista? If, you still really want to use the windows boot loader.