On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 06:32:14AM +0000, Dave Stevens wrote: > 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. > > > 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.) > I would use the linux rescue disk to mount your / partition chroot to that partition and run the following grub commands (maybe we should see you grub.conf before we put money on this working); grub >root (hd0,0) >setup (hd0) >quit -- ======================================================================= "Every morning, I get up and look through the 'Forbes' list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work" -- Robert Orben ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
