Grub Error 2?

linux_student · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 8 Location: Indiana

1st off, heres the machine specs:
AMD K6-2 350MHz
320 MB RAM
FIC VA-503+ MoBo
nVidia TNT2 Pro 16MB AGP
C-media Snd Card (i know it worked under redhat

)
D-link NIC (8139too module)
No name 8x CDROM (hey it mounts and reads...)
3GB HD

Partition setup:
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 110MB
/dev/hda2 swap swap 640MB
/dev/hda3 / ext3 the rest of the hd

I recently installed Gentoo to get away from the "RedHat Bloat" - Had none of the problems associated with AMD processors or anything of the sort...when I try to reboot I get a Grub error 2 ( 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) I am using a menu.lst file that is identical to listing 43 in the install doc...can someone help?
Thank you in advance,
LS

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20484

Did you mount /boot before creating the menu.lst file? Also, it is lst (lowercase L), not 1st (as in first).
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rac · Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2002 5:14 pm Post subject:

...and did you mount /boot when you copied your kernel over? Is the kernel really where you told GRUB that it was?
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linux_student · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 8 Location: Indiana

yes I did; even double checked it (this isnt the 1st time for me installing Gentoo; I had it on my laptop at one time) I also mounted my root, removed and recreated the /boot dir in case there were some files present in that dir, but to no avail.
LS

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20484

With /boot mounted, do you have this entry?

linux_student · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 8 Location: Indiana

yes I have that entry

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20484

Post your menu.lst file... there could be something not quite right. A typo perhaps.
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linux_student · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 8 Location: Indiana

Here is the menu.lst file:

linux_student · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 8 Location: Indiana

Hello,
turns out its the Install doc thats wrong; By reading the GRUB How-to at: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+Win9x+Grub-HOWTO/proc.html#AEN54
I noticed a small difference between the menu.lst there and the one in the install doc, namely:

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20484

That's odd, my menu.lst has them and I have no boot problems.