Re: [SLUG] grub error 15

2010-01-26 Thread david
This is still a mystery. However, I re-ordered the SATA leads so that the root drive was on SATA 0. It now boots with all drives working. Is this black magic? I didn't change the IDE. Interestingly, the noise that I thought was a beetle dying in the back of a cupboard turned out to be a noise in t

Re: [SLUG] grub error 15

2010-01-26 Thread Jeremy Visser
On 27/01/10 09:56, da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: > It bombs before the kernel list. I've tried running: > > #grub-install /dev/sdc > Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device. > > fdisk reports /dev/sdc as the drive that should boot. Likely because you're running it from the

Re: [SLUG] grub error 15

2010-01-26 Thread Heracles
da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: Snip > # grub-install --recheck /dev/sdc3 > Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device > > > I unplugged all but the root drive and it boots perfectly. Progressively > replugging all the drives seems to have random results. There is one IDE > driv

Re: [SLUG] grub error 15

2010-01-26 Thread Jake Anderson
da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: "david" == david writes: On 26/01/10 23:25, da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: After doing a routine reboot I get grub error 15 on Ubuntu 8.10 Does this error occur before or after the GRUB menu appears? i.e. do you get presented with a

Re: [SLUG] grub error 15

2010-01-26 Thread david
>> "david" == david writes: > >>> On 26/01/10 23:25, da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: After doing a routine reboot I get grub error 15 on Ubuntu 8.10 >>> Does this error occur before or after the GRUB menu appears? >>> >>> i.e. do you get presented with a menu to select which kernel at >>> all

Re: [SLUG] grub error 15

2010-01-26 Thread Peter Chubb
> "david" == david writes: >> On 26/01/10 23:25, da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: >>> After doing a routine reboot I get grub error 15 on Ubuntu 8.10 >> Does this error occur before or after the GRUB menu appears? >> >> i.e. do you get presented with a menu to select which kernel at >> all, or do

Re: [SLUG] grub error 15

2010-01-26 Thread david
> On 26/01/10 23:25, da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: >> After doing a routine reboot I get grub error 15 on Ubuntu 8.10 > > Does this error occur before or after the GRUB menu appears? > > i.e. do you get presented with a menu to select which kernel at all, or > does it bomb out before it gets to that s

Re: [SLUG] grub error 15

2010-01-26 Thread Jeremy Visser
On 26/01/10 23:25, da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: > After doing a routine reboot I get grub error 15 on Ubuntu 8.10 Does this error occur before or after the GRUB menu appears? i.e. do you get presented with a menu to select which kernel at all, or does it bomb out before it gets to that stage? > Wh

[SLUG] grub error 15

2010-01-26 Thread david
After doing a routine reboot I get grub error 15 on Ubuntu 8.10 There are 3 drives on the system of which only one is bootable. The UUID's on fstab and menu.lst match. The bootable drive/partition is sdc3 and in the menu.lst it says (hd 0,2) When I enter the BIOS I am only getting one option for