Grub won't boot Jaunty - Error 15 file not found

[Endolith]

I created a new partition near the end of my disk and installed Jaunty on it. After installation, it wouldn't boot, giving me the stage1.5 error.

So then I installed grub into the MBR and selected my existing Ubuntu install sda6 as root. It can now boot into the old Ubuntu on sda6, but when I copy the Jaunty partition options from Jaunty's menu.lst to the working menu.lst on the root partition, it still doesn't work, it gives the Error 15 file not found error and returns to the grub menu if i try.




title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
uuid c78c2847-6416-4184-b714-8a37280b648b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=c78c2847-6416-4184-b714-8a37280b648b ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)
uuid c78c2847-6416-4184-b714-8a37280b648b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=c78c2847-6416-4184-b714-8a37280b648b ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic

title Ubuntu 9.04, memtest86+
uuid c78c2847-6416-4184-b714-8a37280b648b
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

~> sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd0000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 5 40131 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 6 3921 31455270 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 3922 4379 3678885 db CP/M / CTOS / ...
/dev/sda4 4380 19457 121114035 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 4380 4510 1052226 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6 4511 11530 56388118+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 11531 19092 60741733+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 19093 19457 2931831 82 Linux swap / Solaris
sda6 is the existing Intrepid install, sda7 is the new Jaunty install.

[Endolith]

If I change it to say "root (hd0,6)" it gives error 2, though Grub can apparently see the partition fine.

[Endolith]

If I change the first entry to say root (hd6,0):



title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
# uuid c78c2847-6416-4184-b714-8a37280b648b
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=c78c2847-6416-4184-b714-8a37280b648b ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)
uuid c78c2847-6416-4184-b714-8a37280b648b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=c78c2847-6416-4184-b714-8a37280b648b ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic


I get "Error 2: Bad file or directory type" if I try to run the first option, and get "Error 15: File not found" if I try to run the second option that still uses uuid.

[Endolith]

I used GParted to shrink my existing Intrepid partition upwards and set up an 8 GB partition for Jaunty in the same starting sector. After installation, I get this:


GRUB Loading stage1.5


GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 18
_
The Jaunty partition is on /dev/sda8 and has 2.19 GiB of files on it, so it installed. Fdisk says:



ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd0000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 5 40131 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 6 3921 31455270 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 3922 4379 3678885 db CP/M / CTOS / ...
/dev/sda4 4380 19457 121114035 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 4380 4510 1052226 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6 5532 19092 108928701 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 19093 19457 2931831 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8 4511 5531 8201151 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order

From the LiveCD, /media/Jaunty/boot/grub/menu.lst has:


title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
uuid 0dd908ba-9bf9-4904-8300-a8fc425d44a8
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=0dd908ba-9bf9-4904-8300-a8fc425d44a8 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)
uuid 0dd908ba-9bf9-4904-8300-a8fc425d44a8
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=0dd908ba-9bf9-4904-8300-a8fc425d44a8 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
title Ubuntu 9.04, memtest86+
uuid 0dd908ba-9bf9-4904-8300-a8fc425d44a8
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet
...
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
# linux installation on /dev/sda6.
title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-14-generic (on /dev/sda6)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-14-generic root=UUID=77be7041-20fa-4e99-af8d-5489b5e6b6b7 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-14-generic
savedefault
boot
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
# linux installation on /dev/sda6.
title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-14-generic (recovery mode) (on /dev/sda6)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-14-generic root=UUID=77be7041-20fa-4e99-af8d-5489b5e6b6b7 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-14-generic
savedefault
boot
The UUID for the Jaunty partition is correct according to Nautilus.


ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -lu

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd0000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 80324 40131 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 80325 62990864 31455270 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 62990865 70348634 3678885 db CP/M / CTOS / ...
/dev/sda4 70348635 312576704 121114035 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 70348698 72453149 1052226 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6 88855578 306712979 108928701 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 306713043 312576704 2931831 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8 72453213 88855514 8201151 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo sfdisk -d
# partition table of /dev/sda
unit: sectors

/dev/sda1 : start= 63, size= 80262, Id=de
/dev/sda2 : start= 80325, size= 62910540, Id= 7, bootable
/dev/sda3 : start= 62990865, size= 7357770, Id=db
/dev/sda4 : start= 70348635, size=242228070, Id= f
/dev/sda5 : start= 70348698, size= 2104452, Id= b
/dev/sda6 : start= 88855578, size=217857402, Id=83
/dev/sda7 : start=306713043, size= 5863662, Id=82
/dev/sda8 : start= 72453213, size= 16402302, Id=83

[Endolith]

Thanks for nothing!

I ended up shuffling my partitions around and then creating a dedicated boot partition, which I can then boot the Jaunty install from, and it doesn't care about the BIOS translated area.


Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd0000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 5 40131 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 6 3921 31455270 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 3922 4379 3678885 db CP/M / CTOS / ...
/dev/sda4 4380 19457 121114035 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 4380 4415 289138+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 4416 4510 763056 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda7 4511 5531 8201151 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 5532 19092 108928701 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 19093 19457 2931831 82 Linux swap / Solaris

[lavinog]

First you should post your whole menu.lst. The stuff that looks like it is commented out in the beginning gets read when you do a kernel update...if the root uuid isn't in sync with what you have there you can have issues later.

Second, I suspect the problem has to do with your uuid's not being correct.
can you post the output of:

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/

[Endolith]

The Error message said the Jaunty boot was out of range. I don't know how that's possible if Intrepid booted from the same sector, but a separate boot partition fixed it.