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seuchato

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Posted: July 02 2007,07:21

Hi there
Got a messed up DSL, so I decided to go from scratch. Dicided to do it the decent way:
put HD in a box, DLS 3.3 in boot drive, boot it up, go to apps frugal with grub. answer the questions there so I end up with 128MB hda1 ext2. No errors are reported. Manual check shows all is OK
reboot: i do net get beyond

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loading grub stage 1.5 read error

I also tried manual install as indicated in the wiki, installed another distro on same hd (works). checked dsl iso (md5 is correct). What the heck could this be?
greets chris

curaga

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Posted: July 02 2007,10:09

stage1.5 is the filesystem data.. Either it cannot find stage1_5 for e2fs, or something got wrong during the grub installation.. Try with lilo?

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seuchato

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Posted: July 02 2007,17:56

Hi, thanks for your reply
Just got it solved:
- used another box
- mounted my target partition prior to start frugal install
- manually did a grub-install
Which of the three really did the trick i dunno. I got four of these little embedded bastards to be turnded into nicely tamed sound terminals :-) so hold on, I might be around again....
chris

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Posted: July 26 2007,17:36

Hey, I'm getting exactly the same problem.

I'm trying to frugal-install to a 2Gb CF card using an IDE (44-pin) adapter on my newly acquired Dell Latitude L400 laptop.

i can boot and run DSL fine from the LiveCD, and I've tried:

* Frugal-Grub install onto CF card partitioned with a 55Mb ext2 boot partition plust the rest as an ext2 storage
* Straight Frugal-Grub-Scrip install onto un-partitioned CF card
* Frugal Lilo Install Script (this boloxed up and failed t replace Grub in the MBR at all)
* Manual Install (Fdisking the CF card, formatting with mke2fs, copying the CD files, using Grub-install)
* Same as above using grub-setup instead

as far as I know, this is a read error for stage1 of grub, indicating it's unable to read the rest of the files located in the boot directory... which would imply Grub is, for whatever reason, unable to read from the CF card...

any help or ideas?

EDIT: also, I've done installs using run-level 2, and the install boot option, as well as from within the DSL interface itself to no difference.

DevAnubis

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Posted: July 27 2007,18:31

I've also tried an install from the syslinux LiveCD as well just to chekc it's not my ISO version. still the same error.

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