GRUB Fails to Install on Macbook Pro 5,3

Hi All,
I feel like an idiot, never having had GRUB issues before, but for the life of me, I can't get it to install via the setup tool, or the Bootloader Install Guide.
How my filesystem is setup:
/dev/sda is only harddrive
sda1 = EFI
sda2 = OSX
sda3 = swap
sda4 = ext4 mounted to /
My menu.list correctly shows (hd0,3) and I'm trying to install into partition /dev/sda4 as I have rEFIT installed as a master bootloader.
Edit: my fstab
/dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda4 / ext4 defaults,relatime,nodiratime 0 1
I don't know how to look at /dev/tty7 to get the error, but am hoping that someone has seen this before and can tell me what I'm missing.
Thanks!
Rob
Last edited by rgoble4 (2010-01-01 19:03:32)

I did try that unfortunately, but I can't even get the 'df' command to display the partitions.  So the 'find' command doesn't work and running grub-install simply gets me something like 'file not found'
Chakra also failed, so I may be headed back to Ubuntu.  I love the hardware side of my mac, but am so freaking tired of dealing with EFI. 
After 6 months of 'easy' linux I thought I was ready for something a bit more challenging, but I guess I am not up to the task.

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