On Tuesday 24 June 2003 01:56, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (24/06/03 00:52), cr wrote: > > I'm still booting off floppy and trying to get GRUB sorted. > > > > I have /boot on /dev/hda1 and root on /dev/hda5 > > > > (At first, LILO was just hanging with 'LI 99 99 99' and GRub, when I > > installed it gave an Error 5 - 'partition table bad'. Eventually I got > > half a clue and added /boot (/dev/hda1) into /etc/fstab and > > started again...) > > > > Lilo when installed and booted just gives 'LI' and stops. > > > > Grub when installed and booted gives the following: > > > > GRUB Loading Stage 1.5 > > GRUB Loading, please wait... > > Error 2 (and that's as far as it gets) > > > > Error 2 means " Bad file or directory type > > This error is returned if a file requested is not a regular file, but > > something like a symbolic link, directory, or FIFO. " > > > > Does anyone have any ideas? > > > > [The details - I installed GRUB in accordance with > > /usr/share/doc/grub/README.Debian - > > I'm not expert on this but have successfully set Grub up on two PC's. I > used: > > http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&r >eq=viewarticle&artid=539&page=1 > > to guide me. The only variation I adopted was to not rerun update grub > after editing the menu.lst. It seemed to put all the settings back to > their original values.
That article was actually one of the sources I used for reference while trying to debug GRUB. > I don't have separate boot partitions - your problem seems to be that > root is hda5, whereas menu.lst points to hda1. Did update grub set it > back that way? No, it didn't, I set it that way. OTOH, changing it to hda5 makes no difference, I think because the boot process isn't getting that far. > I also installed a later kernel, 2.4.18, before installing grub - not > that this should affect it. > > HTH > > Clive Thanks, but the problem seems to be still there. So far as I can tell, GRUB Stage 1 is loading, but it can't 'see' Stage 1.5 or Stage 2 (one or the other). cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
