Re: grub fails

[Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@wanadoo.es>]

Ramiro Aceves escribió:

> Johann Spies escribió:
>
> > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:10:58PM +0300, Cristi Banciu wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > Johann Spies wrote:
> > >   
> > >
> > > > I have a fairly new PC with the following hardware:
> > > > messages like "Loading stage1.5" on the screen.
> > > >
> > > >     
> > >
> > > Did you edit /boot/grub/menu.lst according to your kernel ?
> > >   
> >
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > It never came to the stage that it would try to load the kernel.
> >
> >  
> >
> > > > Does anyone know about a possible incompatibility between grub and
> > > > this hardware?
> > > >     
> > >
> > > No, I have the same hardware and it is working fine with grub.
> > >   
> >
> >
> > Good to know that.  I will try again.
> >
> > Regards
> > Johann
> >  
> The same for me today, after playing with partitions. I get "ERROR 2" 
> when booting grub. I have reinstalled it, and when I do:
>  
> root (hd0,5)
> setup (hd0)        
> everything goes fine without errors, but when I boot grub stops with 
> error 2.
>
> I have tried Lilo and works ok. I have installed grub in several 
> machines and never had this problem.
> Any help will be welcome.
>
> Ramiro (Spain)
Hello again, I have solved it setting "LBA" instead of "AUTO" on my BIOS 
hard disk setup.
Hope this helps.