On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Thorny <thorntreeh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 17 May 2009 14:25:20 +0000, Andrew Malcolmson posted: > >> I had a working Lenny install which I somehow hosed while experimenting >> with Grub. On boot, the message displays 'Grub loading stage 1.5' then >> 'Error 2' > > It might be easier to speculate if you'd tell exactly what you did while > "experimenting".
I had used Qemu to create an image file of Etch and was trying variations of grub install commands to get Grub correctly installed on the image. I'm pretty sure I accidentally installed an Etch version of Grub on the root/boot partition of my Lenny PC. I have in fact found the cause of the problem. Turns out versions of Grub from about a year ago were not compatible with newer versions of e2fsprog which default to creating 256 bit inode ext2/ext3 filesystems. This command showed that my partition is the newer 256 bit type, rather than the 128 bit type from under Etch and before: sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 | grep -i 'inode size' Therefore, the earlier Grub version I installed could not read my partition. This problem is discussed below: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=463123 http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=189590 http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3094749.0 >> [...] > >> Question: >> >> According to the Grub Manual, Error 2 means this: 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. >> > > This is what I find in the GRUB errors: > > 2 : "Selected disk doesn't exist" > > This error is returned if the device part of a device- or full filename > refers to a disk or BIOS device that is not present or not recognized by > the BIOS in the system. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- Remove _bad_ to reply -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
