Hoary Array 3 - Grub loader fails with "GRUB Loading stage1.5"

[Byron Poland]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 10:05:56 +0100, Herbert Straub
<herbert at linuxhacker.at> wrote:
> After the installation the first reboot hangs with the line: "GRUB
> Loading stage1.5". Nothing more happens. This is a Chiligreen AMD64
> Notebook. I try to install SuSE 9.2 on another parition and configure
> the "Suse" grub menu.lst file to boot the Ubuntu System. This works, the
> Ubuntu System boots without problems. Then i tried to install the grub
> with "grub-install /dev/hda" and got the following output (/dev/hda1 is
> ext3) and the next boot also fails with the same output.
> 
> ------
> Due to a bug in xfs_freeze, the following command might produce a
> segmentation
> fault when /boot/grub is not in an XFS filesystem. This error is
> harmless and
> can be ignored.
> xfs_freeze: specified file ["/boot/grub"] is not on an XFS filesystem
> /sbin/grub-install: line 516: 23615 Segmentation fault      $grub_shell
> --batch $no_floppy --device-map=$device_map  >$log_file <<EOF
> root $root_drive
> setup $force_lba --stage2=$grubdir/stage2 --prefix=$grub_prefix
> $install_drive
> quit
> EOF
> 
> Installation finished. No error reported.
> This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
> Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
> fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.
> 
> (hd0)    /dev/hda
> ------
> 
> I searched the Ubuntu Bugzilla and found one entry:
> https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5791
> 
> What could i do to fix this situation?
> 
> Best regards
> Herbert Straub
> 
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I came across this too.  Very annoying.  I got around it by booting
the Warty install disk, doing expert mode, mounting my new root,
chrooting to it, and installing grub from there.  Read back a few and
you'll see a few notes on this under a subject like Hoary o AMD64 with
SATA or something like that.