grub error 15 after hoary install

[David McGaffin]

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 19:19 +1200, Bill Christiansen wrote:
> Check the computers bios settings for that hard drive, you may have LBA mode enabled, try setting to normal and then try booting again.
> Bill

Thanks for the suggestion.  I've tried switching between LBA and normal
after reading that others had solved an error 18 problem by doing this.
Unfortunately, it seems to have no effect.

- david


> On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 20:56:08 -0400
> David McGaffin <david-lists at bigbluesea.org> wrote:
> 
> > Although I have successfully installed Hoary on my laptop, I tried this
> > weekend to install it on my 5-year old desktop PC that had been running
> > Mandrake Linux with Lilo as the boot manager.  The Hoary install went
> > fine until it wast time to reboot to finish the installation.
> > 
> > At first, I received a Grub Error 18.  After some searching, I created a
> > small /boot partition at the beginning of the disk. Re-install.  Reboot.
> > 
> > Now, I get Grub Error 15, which indicates that a file cannot be found by
> > Grub.  Can anyone suggest either a remedy for this problem or the steps
> > I need to take to investigate and change the Grub configuration during
> > the install?
> > 
> > Thanks for any help.
> > 
> > - david
> > 
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