I have installed GRUB: i-was:/boot/grub# grub-install /dev/hda Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub Installation finished. No error reported. This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map. Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'. (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/hda But with "strings /dev/hda" the output is still with LILO and an alert about Stage 2 i-was:/boot/grub# strings /dev/hda LILO ZRrI D|f1 GRUB Geom Hard Disk Read Error pPf1 Loading stage1.5 Geom Read Error 0.97 /boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst ^_[] [^_] t 9u [^_] PjuS PPRh t2SShP> Error %u ext2fs GRUB loading, please wait... internal error: the second sector of Stage 2 is unknown. r of Stage 2 is unknown.