Error 31: File is not sector aligned

[Kingsly John]

Hi!

When I use the grub-install script all I got was scrolling fulls of
GRUB.... so I decided to get a bit more adventurous and tried this....

install /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0)  /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu.lst

this resulted in just the word GRUB on the screen and nothing else...

(I'm guessing that this means that it's unable to load the second
stage.... )

So I decided to try this...

install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0) 
/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 p /grub/menu.lst

and I got the error ...

Error 31: File is not sector aligned

Can someone tell me if I have got the syntax of the install command
correct ?

and which file is this error talking about ?


TIA

Kingsly