[mdlug] GRUB question

[David Relson]

G'day,

This afternoon I've got a grub question.

With the following partitions and mount points

   hda1 31mb  /boot
   hda5 10GB  /
   hda8 150GB /home

I want GRUB to boot from hda1.  However it insists on booting from
hda5.

To identify whether GRUB is using /dev/hda1 or /dev/hda5's boot
directory, the two grub/grub.conf files have:

   title=Gentoo Linux /dev/hda1
   title=Gentoo Linux /dev/hda5

I've tried the following:

1 - gparted - used to set the boot flag on hda1
2 - command "grub-install /dev/hda"
3 - Upon booting, used grub's command line to execute
    root (hd0,4)
    makeactive

but none have worked.

What am I missing?  How do I make it do what I want?

Regards,

David