Re: Grub stage1 not found then Error 2 on reboot
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Thorny <thorntreehome@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 17 May 2009 14:25:20 +0000, Andrew Malcolmson posted:
>
>> I had a working Lenny install which I somehow hosed while experimenting
>> with Grub. On boot, the message displays 'Grub loading stage 1.5' then
>> 'Error 2'
>
> It might be easier to speculate if you'd tell exactly what you did while
> "experimenting".
I had used Qemu to create an image file of Etch and was trying
variations of grub install commands to get Grub correctly installed on
the image. I'm pretty sure I accidentally installed an Etch version
of Grub on the root/boot partition of my Lenny PC.
I have in fact found the cause of the problem. Turns out versions of
Grub from about a year ago were not compatible with newer versions of
e2fsprog which default to creating 256 bit inode ext2/ext3
filesystems.
This command showed that my partition is the newer 256 bit type,
rather than the 128 bit type from under Etch and before:
sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 | grep -i 'inode size'
Therefore, the earlier Grub version I installed could not read my partition.
This problem is discussed below:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=463123
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=189590
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3094749.0
>> [...]
>
>> Question:
>>
>> According to the Grub Manual, Error 2 means this: 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.
>>
>
> This is what I find in the GRUB errors:
>
> 2 : "Selected disk doesn't exist"
>
> This error is returned if the device part of a device- or full filename
> refers to a disk or BIOS device that is not present or not recognized by
> the BIOS in the system.
>
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