<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>I tried what they said to do on the site.</DIV><DIV>However, it didn't work.</DIV><DIV>I will try to type up tho output as best I can.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><B><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">---START---</SPAN></B></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"> GNU GRUB version 0.95 (640K lower / 260572K upper memory)</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New">[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"> lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"> completions of a device/filename. ]</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New">grub> <B>find /boot/grub/stage1</B></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"> (hd1,4)</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New">grub> <B>root (hd1,4)</B></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New">grub> <B>setup (hd0)</B></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"> Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"> Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... no</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New">Error 15: File not found</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New">grub></FONT></DIV><DIV><B><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">---END---</SPAN></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Anyway, what I think is happening is that for some reason stage2 is missing.</DIV><DIV>When I boot normally, I still get the following (after holding down F12 to avoid booting to CD):</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><B>---START---</B></SPAN></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New">Boot Device Menu</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New">=================</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"> 1. Normal</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"> 2. Diskette Drive</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"> 3. Hard-Disk Drive C:</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"> 4. IDE CD-ROM Device</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New">Enter a choice: <B>3</B></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New">GRUB Loading stage1.5</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New">GRUB loading, please wait...</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New">Error 15</FONT></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><B>---END---</B></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><B></B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Any ideas on what I should do?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>~Matt</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 7, 2005, at 8:55 AM, Dinesh Gurumurthy wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I have solved the same problem with Fedora core 3.I think following</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">link would be useful.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://orgs.man.ac.uk/documentation/grub/grub_4.html#SEC15">http://orgs.man.ac.uk/documentation/grub/grub_4.html#SEC15</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On 7/7/05, Matthew S-H <<A href="mailto:mathbymath@aol.com">mathbymath@aol.com</A>> wrote:</DIV> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I recently fubared my system.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>(by the way, "fubar" is a word that means</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">seriously f---ed up. -- different from the common foo-bar).</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I have 2 harddrives:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">40GB Maxtor</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">120GB Western Digital</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The 120GB drive contains 2 partitions and some unallocated space.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Both</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">partitions are used by Windows (one for system, the other for data).</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The 80GB drive contains:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>1 extended partition with a number of partitions dedicated to linux ane</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">some unallocated space at the end</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>1 primary partition with some old backups of some files on my laptop</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>A fair amount of unallocated space.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Anyway, I was stuck using Windows for a few days (only like 4).</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[RANT]</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I didn't have the charger for my laptop (which runs MacOS X 10.4.1) and I</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">needed to run some proprietary software that is Mac/Win only.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>So, I booted</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">into the XP partition I hadn't touched in about a year since I started using</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ubuntu.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">BIG NIGHTMARE!!<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Everything needed to be updated, the thing got a virus</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">within minutes of signing online, it was slow as h---, and it seemed to have</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">an odd problem with memory that it never had before.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[/RANT]</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Anyway, a little bit of thinking gave me the bold idea to create a separate</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">partition on my 120GB hard drive that was dedicated for a Windows paging</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">file.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I thus created a new partition at the end of the 120GB hard drive and let</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Windows create a paging file there.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I then rebooted because Windows told me</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>A minute and a half later (Windows took a while), I was staring at the</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">9 words:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">GRUB Loading stage1.5.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">GRUB loading, please wait...</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Error 15</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Anyway, after that long story, anyone know what I can do to fix it?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I have most of the directories on my Ubuntu system on their own partition.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Here are the 3 that are probably most relevant:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">hdb5 <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>/</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">hdb6 <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>/boot</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">hdb10<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>/home</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Again, any advice would be greatly appreciated.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Either a walkthrough or a</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">link to one would be nice.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">~Matt</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; 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