On Tuesday 12 April 2005 18:44, Vickram Crishna wrote:
Does anyone know how to get around this? I get persistent GRUB failure, Error 15.
Afair error 15=file not found. means your root partition is not set properly in grub. Note grub partition numbers begin with zero so if root is on first ide drive first partition your grub menu.lst would look like
title deb-2.6.10 root(hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz boot=/dev/hda1 dma acpi append="whatever"
here is my menu.lst
root (hd0,4) boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=10 #splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title deb-2.6.10 root (hd0,4) kernel /vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda5 idebus=66 append="hdd=ide-scsi dma apm=power-off" #the above line is one line
title Debian-2.4.24 (reiser) root (hd0,4) kernel /vmlinuz.old ro root=/dev/hda5 append="hdd=ide-scsi" #initrd /boot/initrd
title win root (hd0,1) # hide (hd0,4) rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1
#title LTSP
I have tried several times to reload the GRUB loader, using RH9 disks and also Ubuntu (the latter does not have any way to install GRUB without committing to partitioning), but despite apparent success during the process, it always returns the same error.
You dont need to reload grub once it is installed, just edit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Query: should I try Lilo? I must have the ability to boot to either
grub is altogether more flexible particularly if you muck around with drives and kernels and distros. Me loves grub.
rgds jtd