hard drive grub loading error message

drum · 02-01-2005, 12:38 AM

Hi,
I have been given a 120gig hard drive (western digital) and don't know it's history. I disconnected my 80 gig which works fine with Mepis and connected up the 120 with the same cables. On reboot with or without a linux disc or the "ultimate boot disk" I get...
GRUB Loading stage1.5.
GRUB loading, please wait....
Error 2.

There is a flashing cursor but it will not accept any commands.
I have an ASUS p4p800 m/board and celeron D 2.66 ghz processor and 512 mg ram

Any help will be appreciated
thanks
drum (newbie)

reddazz · 02-01-2005, 01:22 AM

You need to amke sure that the disk that you installed grub is the master disk coz grub is trying to read your /boot/grub/menu.lst from it.

drum · 02-01-2005, 02:02 AM

Thanks, I just changed the cable from the end connector to the middle one and that solved the problem.
Much appreciated
Drum