GRUB Reinstall (Separate issue from recent issue with same subject)

[Matthew S-H]

I tried what they said to do on the site.
However, it didn't work.
I will try to type up tho output as best I can.

---START---
    GNU GRUB  version 0.95  (640K lower / 260572K upper memory)

[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
   lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the  
possible
   completions of a device/filename. ]

grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
  (hd1,4)

grub> root (hd1,4)
  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

grub> setup (hd0)
  Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
  Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... no

Error 15: File not found

grub>
---END---

Anyway, what I think is happening is that for some reason stage2 is  
missing.
When I boot normally, I still get the following (after holding down  
F12 to avoid booting to CD):

---START---
Boot Device Menu
=================


    1. Normal
    2. Diskette Drive
    3. Hard-Disk Drive C:
    4. IDE CD-ROM Device

Enter a choice: 3

GRUB Loading stage1.5


GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 15
---END---



Any ideas on what I should do?


~Matt




On Jul 7, 2005, at 8:55 AM, Dinesh Gurumurthy wrote:

> I have solved the same problem with Fedora core 3.I think following
> link would be useful.
> http://orgs.man.ac.uk/documentation/grub/grub_4.html#SEC15
>
> On 7/7/05, Matthew S-H <mathbymath at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> I recently fubared my system.  (by the way, "fubar" is a word that  
>> means
>> seriously f---ed up. -- different from the common foo-bar).
>> I have 2 harddrives:
>> 40GB Maxtor
>> 120GB Western Digital
>>
>> The 120GB drive contains 2 partitions and some unallocated space.   
>> Both
>> partitions are used by Windows (one for system, the other for data).
>> The 80GB drive contains:
>>     1 extended partition with a number of partitions dedicated to  
>> linux ane
>> some unallocated space at the end
>>     1 primary partition with some old backups of some files on my  
>> laptop
>>     A fair amount of unallocated space.
>>
>>
>> Anyway, I was stuck using Windows for a few days (only like 4).
>> [RANT]
>> I didn't have the charger for my laptop (which runs MacOS X  
>> 10.4.1) and I
>> needed to run some proprietary software that is Mac/Win only.  So,  
>> I booted
>> into the XP partition I hadn't touched in about a year since I  
>> started using
>> Ubuntu.
>> BIG NIGHTMARE!!  Everything needed to be updated, the thing got a  
>> virus
>> within minutes of signing online, it was slow as h---, and it  
>> seemed to have
>> an odd problem with memory that it never had before.
>> [/RANT]
>> Anyway, a little bit of thinking gave me the bold idea to create a  
>> separate
>> partition on my 120GB hard drive that was dedicated for a Windows  
>> paging
>> file.
>> I thus created a new partition at the end of the 120GB hard drive  
>> and let
>> Windows create a paging file there.  I then rebooted because  
>> Windows told me
>> to.  A minute and a half later (Windows took a while), I was  
>> staring at the
>> 9 words:
>> GRUB Loading stage1.5.
>> GRUB loading, please wait...
>> Error 15
>>
>> Anyway, after that long story, anyone know what I can do to fix it?
>> I have most of the directories on my Ubuntu system on their own  
>> partition.
>> Here are the 3 that are probably most relevant:
>> hdb5     /
>> hdb6     /boot
>> hdb10    /home
>>
>> Again, any advice would be greatly appreciated.  Either a  
>> walkthrough or a
>> link to one would be nice.
>>
>>
>>
>> ~Matt
>>
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