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Old 01-30-2006, 11:26 AM   #16
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Grub 0.97 is installed.

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Rarely I heard a case that if you try hard and repeat the booting often enough Grub will eventually give in to do what it is told.
I totally agree. It's too weird. I'll remove Stage1.5 to see what happens. Thanks.

--update:
I don't even get a warning: Grub loads fine without Stage 1.5
Thanks for your help. (Although I'm not satisfied with te solition, it works)

Last edited by Haystack; 01-30-2006 at 11:58 AM.
 
Old 01-31-2006, 07:44 PM   #17
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hmm Now I'm getting mad... It seemed to be ok.. but now the error 16 appears again. I swear I deleted all the stage 1.5 files:

Code:
$ ls /boot/grub
default     grub.conf  splash.xpm.gz  stage2      stage2_eltorito
device.map  menu.lst   stage1         stage2.old
aaaargh... nasty shit... I'll post again when I found the problem.

---UPDATE---
erhmmm. There was a backup of the grub directory with old stage1.5 files somewhere that messed up everything.

Last edited by Haystack; 02-02-2006 at 05:32 AM.
 
Old 02-03-2006, 12:12 PM   #18
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I take it you have updated Grub after hidding the stage1.5 by

(1) "grub-install" for Bash shell or
(2) In a Grub shell using commands "root" +"setup"

Grub should have a virgin copy of all the stage files in /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc directory or a directory starting /usr/share. That will not be picked up by Grub in the normal operation. To setup Grub in the MBR it is always the files in the /boot/grub directory that matter.
 
Old 02-05-2006, 05:07 PM   #19
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This sounds like the integrity of your disk is questionable. the only time I've ever seen anything fail, fail again, fail again, and finally work, is when the correct data is there, but the disk is damaged in some way, making it hard to read.
 
  


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