Hello all, Recently I made some changes in my system in order to try a new distribution I hope to be able to use on old small computers. After the test I could no longer boot into FC3 on hda1. Grub starts up, gives a stage 1.5 notice then displays error 5. This seems to be generated by grub not being able to find a needed file. I am not sure what file or what to do about this. My system details: athlon 1 gig 512 megs RAM 1 9.1 gig Seagate scsi drive, sda (sda1) with a bootable Morphix system (Debian based, works ok) If I tell the BIOS to boot off SCSI this starts up. 1 Samsung 40 gig IDE as hda (hda1, hda2). hda1 marked as bootable has always worked ok before. Should be booting 2.6.9-1.667 which is where I was. BIOS was set to boot from IDE-0. 1 LG CDRW/DVDRW at hdb 1 Samsung 60 gig IDE as hdc (hdc1) was mounted under /home, all user data, all intact and accessible. 1 WD 1.6 gig IDE as hdd (hdd1) which was the test unit for the small system. the directory of / on hda1 shows: root@athlon:/mnt # ls -al /mnt/hda1 total 13492 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 Apr 11 11:09 . drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Apr 11 11:56 .. -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 714266 Apr 11 11:02 System.map -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 239593 May 8 2004 System.map-2.6.5-1.358 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 237792 Jul 1 2004 System.map-2.6.6-1.435.2.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 242782 Aug 3 2004 System.map-2.6.7-1.494.2.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 245557 Aug 14 2004 System.map-2.6.8-1.520 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 245203 Aug 16 2004 System.map-2.6.8-1.521 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 714266 Apr 11 11:02 System.map.new-2.6.9-1.667 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46375 May 8 2004 config-2.6.5-1.358 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46437 Jul 1 2004 config-2.6.6-1.435.2.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49658 Aug 3 2004 config-2.6.7-1.494.2.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49763 Aug 14 2004 config-2.6.8-1.520 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49728 Aug 16 2004 config-2.6.8-1.521 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50929 Nov 3 01:23 config-2.6.9-1.667 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Dec 25 04:58 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 318303 Jul 9 2004 initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 316663 Jul 30 2004 initrd-2.6.6-1.435.2.3.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 329942 Aug 5 2004 initrd-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 330626 Aug 17 2004 initrd-2.6.8-1.520.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 330264 Aug 20 2004 initrd-2.6.8-1.521.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 530103 Dec 25 04:55 initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 549 Dec 18 2003 kernel.h drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Dec 18 2003 lost+found -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 714266 Nov 3 01:23 s.m -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1199031 May 8 2004 vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1203835 Jul 1 2004 vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435.2.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1360550 Aug 3 2004 vmlinuz-2.6.7-1.494.2.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1362562 Aug 14 2004 vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.520 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1360057 Aug 16 2004 vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.521 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1405861 Nov 3 01:23 vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 root@athlon:/mnt # I don't know where to go. I have been reading the GRUB manual but it is substantial and I have already tried what seems to me to be likely to not cause further problems and wiould prefer to have advice before doing anything likely to lead to data loss (of course k3b, my usual backup method) is not curently available.) TIA, Dave
