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On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:55 PM, stomfisite <stomfisite@???> wrote:

> jaromil wrote:
> > > >
> > hi Brian,
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 04:38:33PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> >> I have installed Dyne on a 4gig usb pen drive. When I boot from the pen
> >> drive I get the following error message
> >>
> >> root (hd1,0)
> >> file system type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> >> kernal /dyne/2618ck1d.krn root=/dev/ram0 load_ramdisk=y max_loop=64
> vga=791
> > ^^^^^^^^
> >
> > is that really written kernAl ?
> >
> >> Error 15
> >
> > that doesn't says much, it must be a grub related error..
>
> It is a stage 1.5 error. Error 15 : "Error while parsing number"
>
> Stage 2 errors will give the error number and the string. Although
> if it gets this far the error 15 often reads "File not found"
> According to the docs you should be able to CTRL-ALT-DEL reboot, but
> I get a system hang.
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html
>
> Any what all this means is that Grub probably can't find a (boot)
> file, for one reason or another.
>
> reason 1
> I get this error if I forget to delete an NTFS drive and wipe it or
> partition and format it as ext3 before cloning. For some reason I
> get dma read errors on older drives if I don't do that step and so
> grub cannot find the boot files because the read process is timing out.
> >
> reason 2
> This next solution might have some bearing on your problem if you
> think your root numbers are correct.
> http://www.statusq.org/archives/2007/01/07/1267/
>
> and of course playing around with the numbers in Jaromil's advice.
> (Don't cryptic error messages and terse documentation make life
> difficult. Not quite as bad as the old minicomputer "Fatal Error"
> though.)
>
> reason 3
> > please keep in mind you need to adjust the line
> >
> > root (hd1,0)
> >
> > to (hd0,0) or (hd2,0)
> >
> > depending on your system configuration and the number of harddrive
> > controllers on the machine - with grub you can do that live.
> >
> > hope it helps,
> > ciao
> >
> > - --
> > Jaromil, dyne.org developer, http://jaromil.dyne.org
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