Help with grub error 2

[Yaropolk]

I have a problem with the Grub bootloader, I have a hard drive (sda) where ubuntu is installed on sda1 and sda3 DSL and the problem I have is that I can only boot on sda3 dsl, when I try to boot with my ubuntu 8.10 goes as follows:

Error 2: bad file or directory type
as meaning? I have proven to reinstall grub on sda1 but remains the same
.
Greetings and thanks

[Allan.d]

This error is returned if the device part of a device- or full filename refers to a disk or BIOS device that is not present or not recognized by the BIOS in the system.

You haven't got a good configuration of grub. Remember that (hd0)=hda or sda and (hd0,0) is the first partition of the first recognized drive.

[TX-Snakebyte]

Hi,

I have the same problem with ubuntu and just recently got the error 18 at bootup. Changed the LBA setting in the bios, and now getting "error 2". Anyone know what error 2 actually is?

[WMBrown]

Hi,

To fix it, download the latest release of Grub, (0.97-29ubuntu45) and remove the two modules e2fs_stage1_5 and stage2 then install them into the old /boot/grub directory of the OS on the SATA drive from which I was trying to boot, then regenerating the MBR on the SATA drive thus:

# sudo grub
grub> device (hd0) /dev/sda
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit

Hope this helps someone.