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#1 2009-07-09 17:25:23

Yes
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Registered: 2008-03-29
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Grub Error 2

I just reinstalled Arch, and I get a grub error 15 when I try and boot.  Grub was installed by my Ubuntu install, so the menu.lst I'm using is on that partition if it matters.  My Arch entry there looks like

title Arch Linux
root (hd0,11)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda11 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

My Arch / partition is /dev/sda11, and I don't have a seperate /boot partition.

Thanks!

Last edited by Yes (2009-07-09 18:28:18)

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#2 2009-07-09 17:32:53

tw3akUrb0x
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Registered: 2009-07-09
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Re: Grub Error 2

hello,

   by the looks of things I would say that your root is wrong. error 15 is file not found.  try root (hd0,10) for first hard drive 11 partition. Seems you are just looking for the grub in the wrong place.


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#3 2009-07-09 17:42:44

Yes
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Re: Grub Error 2

Oh right I guess it starts counting from 0, so the 11th partition will be root (0,10)

I tried that and I get error 2: Bad file.  I'll look up what that means now...

e: Should I just install Grub from the Arch cd and then add the Ubuntu and Windows lines to that menu.lst?

e2: Changed /dev/sda11 to /dev/disk/by-uuid/uuid-of-root-partition, and I still get the same error

e3:  Apparently it was because Grub can't handle the 256 bit inodes the newer version of mkfs.ext3 uses when it creates an ext3 filesystem.  I reinstalled Arch this time manually formatting my root partition with mkfs.ext3 -I 128 /dev/sda11 and it now gets past Grub.  It can't find the disk now, but I think if I just go back to /dev/sda11 instead of using UUID that'll fix it...

e4: Yay! It works, Arch boots big_smile

Last edited by Yes (2009-07-09 19:51:08)

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