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bjchamb
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 Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 4:44 am Post subject: GRUB Stage 1.5 Error 15 |
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| Well, I can't remember exactly what I did since the last time I know my computer booted successfully. I know I was in the process of switching to a 2.6.6-mm2 kernel from my 2.6.5-mm6 kernel. I think had successfully rebooted with udev while still under the previous kernel. I may have also done an emerge kde, which would have installed most of the kde stuff. I have rebooted using the livecd to check my grub.conf and it seems in tact (with the modifications for 2.6.6, of course). I did a fsck on the /boot and / partitions and they are fine. I don't know what could be causing this problem... any suggestions/ |
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hitman200ca
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| Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 4:55 am Post subject: |
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What is the error message and when is it displayed?
Do you even see the GRUB menu or does it crash before that?
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bjchamb
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| Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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GRUB Stage 1.5
Error 15: Something about a number
I'm not at home right now so I can't give the exact message. It came up before the menu, never saw anything. The first line was stage 1.5, and the error message was Error 15, and something about a bad or invalid number. When I get home iI can provide more information. |
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nixnut
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Try searching the forums too. Oh, and read the grub error collection thread at the top of this forum too. Most likely your problem has already been solved there (several times  )
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hitman200ca
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Also make sure you post your /etc/fstab and /boot/grub.conf
The error you are getting is outlined very shortly here.
http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/errors.html
| Quote: | 15 : "Error while parsing number"
This error is returned if GRUB was expecting to read a numbur and encountered bad data.
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So it seems that something must be corrupt somewhere.
You could also try booting the LiveCD and redoing your MBR
using the GRUB console. (IE readd your bootloader as per the
install guide) This may clear up any corruption.
EDIT)
When continuing my search it seems the error numbers are inconsistent
on different websites. I just found this:
| Quote: | 15 : File not found
This error is returned if the specified file name cannot be found, but everything else (like the disk/partition info) is OK. |
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| Ok, I managed to solve this. I booted into the Live CD, mount my root directory and ran sbin/grub to reinstall grub to my master boot record. I don't think it was a problem with the mbr, for some reason when I did the reinstall it also said /boot/grub/stage1 didn't exist... somehow I must have wiped this out, but I have no idea how I did it... |
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