Ian K wrote:

>Hey guys,
>I was poking around, and saw that my boot simlink was wiped.
>I thought that was the answer. But I now boot and get an
>error 16. grrrr.....
>Ian
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Well, it turns out that when I replaced the symlink with a new one,
I replaced it wrong. It pointed to the wrong place. (../boot instead of
just .)
That seemed to fix it. Thanks for the assistance though!!!
Ian

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>>Heinz Sporn wrote:
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>>>Hi!
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>>>Whenever someone has Grub problems it'd be a good idea to not only post
>>>grub.conf but more importantly infos about the disk layouts (and fstab
>>>to round it up).
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>>OK, well I have a dual boot with Windows happening here as you
>>probably can tell. Its all on the one hard drive.
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>>Partition 1 (grub 0)(hda1) = Windows XP (NTFS)
>>Partition 2 (grub 1)(hda2) = Gentoo /boot (reiserfs)
>>Partition 3 (grub 2)(hda3) = Linux Swap
>>Partition 4 (grub 3)(hda4) = Gentoo / (Including /home) (reiserfs)
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>>>In your case there seems to be a couple of things to verify.
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>>>I assume that Grub didn't come up with its initial dialog? 
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>>Yup, it showed nothing.
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>>>means that it couldn't find /boot/grub/grub.conf using it's stage
>>>drivers in /boot/grub.
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>>Alright, so would I just 'install' it again? This is not an initial
>>install of grub, how could it lose its configuration file?
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>>>With root (hd0,1) you force Grub to load an OS from the second partition
>>>of your first physical disk. Does /dev/hda4 reflect this situation?
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>>>So in short: you have to tell Grub where to find /boot/grub/grub.conf
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>>Well, as long as you can tell me how Im OK.
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>>>But for detailed forensics I'd need more intel.
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>>>Regards
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>>>spox
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>>Thanks very much!!
>>Ian
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>>>Am Samstag, den 06.08.2005, 01:32 -0400 schrieb Ian K:
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>>>>Hi there,
>>>>I am getting an "Error 15"
>>>>when grub loads. I booted in with a Gentoo Live CD
>>>>and got the file, and am including it. I think the
>>>>error 15 code is a syntax error, right? Here is
>>>>the file. Let me know if you see a problem.
>>>>Ian
>>>>PS> Please note I like to make things look good,
>>>>explaining the ..::..'s
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>>>>---------grub.conf---------
>>>>default 2
>>>>timeout 10
>>>>splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
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>>>>title=.....::::: GentooLinux2.6.11-gentoo-r11
>>>>:::::.....
>>>>root (hd0,1)
>>>>kernel /linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r11 root=/dev/hda4
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>>>>title=.....:::::Gentoo
>>>>Linux2.6.11-gen-r11-IR2:::::.....
>>>>root (hd0,1)
>>>>kernel /linux-2.6.11-r11-IR2 root=/dev/hda4 
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>>>>title=.....:::::Gentoo
>>>>Linux2.6.11-gen-r11-IR3:::::.....
>>>>root (hd0,1)
>>>>kernel /linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r11-IR3 root=/dev/hda4
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>>>>title=.....:::::Gentoo Linux
>>>>2.6.13-rc1-mm1-R2:::::.....
>>>>root (hd0,1)
>>>>kernel /K2.6.13-rc1-mm1-R2 root=/dev/hda4
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>>>>title=.....:::::          Windows XP         
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>>>>rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>>>>makeactive
>>>>chainloader +1
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