Big GRUB problem.....

_dook_master_ · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 4:54 am Post subject: Big GRUB problem.....

This is the first time I've EVER had a problem with GRUB. I installed the system just fine, everything went well. I rebooted, and I get a GRUB Error 2. I assume this means something wrong with the file system, but I set it up again and again and it doesn't work. Does anyone have ideas? Its just an old Maxtor HD in a K6 box.

farrioth · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 5:00 am Post subject:

Error 2 means bad file or directory type. Give me the complete output produced by grub, and your grub.conf file.

_dook_master_ · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 5:03 am Post subject:

Thats the complete output, here's my file.

_Nomad_ · Guru Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 571

the kernel line should look something like this instead

_dook_master_ · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 5:24 am Post subject:

farrioth · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 5:34 am Post subject:

Here's my grub.conf:

_dook_master_ · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 5:52 am Post subject:

I've got a root line. Here is the ouput of...

darksbane · n00b Joined: 15 Apr 2004 Posts: 28 Location: Fredonia, NY

One thing that caught me once was that I forgot to mount /boot when I copied over the kernel. Is the kernel just sitting in the /boot dir on (hd0,2)?

Also, what filesystem is (hd0,0)?
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_dook_master_ · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 6:03 am Post subject:

It's ext2, and nope, its actually in the dir.

farrioth · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 6:11 am Post subject:

darksbane · n00b Joined: 15 Apr 2004 Posts: 28 Location: Fredonia, NY

From the grub manual, An Error 2 is a "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."

It doesn't seem to be any of these from the ls -l you posted earlier. If formatting the partition and setting it all up again doesn't fix the problem, then I'm stumped.
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_dook_master_ · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 6:30 am Post subject:

This thing is so slow, that if it comes to formatting again its not worth it. I turned it all the way off, and the BIOS just beeps at me and it won't post, so something's def wrong with it.