Re: GRUB problem

[ajlewis2@intac.com]

In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> I'm still booting off floppy and trying to get GRUB sorted.   
> 
> I have /boot on  /dev/hda1   and root on /dev/hda5
> 
> (At first, LILO was just hanging with 'LI 99 99 99'  and GRub, when I 
> installed it gave an Error 5 - 'partition table bad'.    Eventually I got 
> half a clue and added  /boot   (/dev/hda1)    into  /etc/fstab   and started 
> again...)
> 
> Lilo when installed and booted just gives 'LI' and stops.
> 
> Grub when installed and booted gives the following:
> 
> GRUB Loading Stage 1.5
> GRUB Loading, please wait...
> Error 2    (and that's as far as it gets)
> 
> Error 2 means " 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. "
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?

Could we see your /etc/fstab and the output of 'df > mount-partitions,
please?  

I'm thinking that maybe you entered the line for /boot into /etc/fstab and
didn't put a new line character at the end of the file.  It would then not
see /boot.

Anita