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'.
I did the following to try to fix the problem: 1) I reboot from a GRML rescue CD and attempt to repair grub with grub-install #mount /dev/sda5 /mnt #grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda The file /mnt/boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly. stage1 is present at /mnt/boot/grub/stage1 and md5sum shows it is not corrupted. Same for stage2. Device.map: (hd0) /dev/sda 2) I then tried this: # mount -t proc none /mnt/proc # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev # chroot /mnt # grub grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,4) grub> root (hd0,4) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> setup (hd0) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 15 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p (hd0,4)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded Done. This looks good but on reboot I still get Grub Error 2. 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. The above shows that when /proc and /dev are manually mounted and grub is run from a chroot, Grub can find stage1 and stage2 but when booting Grub somehow does not read them as regular files. Anyone know what this means and what I should do? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
