Grub error 2 on intrepid

I can use the super grub cd and boot to any OS but when I go into ubuntu and try updating or setting up grub it looks like it goes through with no problem but still come up to error 2

Have you been able to edit the "menu.lst" file?

Grub counts from 0 where linux counts from 1 so sda6 will be "hd(0,5)". One problem you might be suffering from is that Operating Systems work much better in Primary partitions rather than inside a Logical Partition inside an Extended Partition. This is also the case for the linux-swap but perhaps not quite so important.

Also Ubuntu prefers being on an ext3 partition rather than hpfs/ntfs and i'm not sure what it means by "Linux" on that line, there are too many different things it could mean. If that's where Ubuntu is going to be then try to make it an ext3 but make sure you save your data elsewhere first as reformatting the partition will destroy all the data on that partition.

The linux-swap / Solaris also sounds a bit non-standard. It looks like a very large partition if it's just a swap partition and if it's running Solaris then presumably the swap space is a swap-file inside Solaris which seems unlikely to be much use to Ubuntu. It would be better for Ubuntu to have a proper linux-swap partition of about 2xRam size. I think Solaris could also use the same partition as swap space and then might not need it's swap-file. If this is running the Solaris OS then it'd be better to try getting that onto a Primary Partition and out of the Extended Partition too - that should improve it's performance too :)

It looks like most of the partitioning was done through a Windows Partitioner as they often create these sort of problems.

Good luck sorting this. Regards from
Tom :)

well it would be pretty easy to just boot up delete my linux partiotns and reinstall I was just wondering why it wasn't working

it was working fine before installing gfxboot

I had installed WindowsXP then WindowsVista, then ubuntu,
sized my ubuntu partion with the ubuntu installer which defaulted to ext2 I noticed later and wondere why it wasn't ext3

every OS booted fine

I installed GFXboot it didn't work so I uninstalled it and reinstalled grub

that worked the first time

then I tried the gfxboot to see if I could get it to work again but it still didn't work

but this time when uninstalling grub and reinstalling the setup goes through fine

but when I reboot I get the error 2....but with the supergrub it will find my /boot/grub/menu.lst and I can choose any os and boot up

I guess I can just delete the linux and reinstall it I can see my other partitions in it so I can copy my data to them
but there's alot of updates after a new install I was trying to avoid that

besides my swap being large I really don't see a problem with my setup and wonder why I can't get gfxboot to workit had worked before with gutsy

it's not really a swap / Solaris that's just how fdisk reads it it's just a large swap

If I delete my linux and make it an ext3 instead of ext2 will ythat make any diffrence in making gfxboot work?

like I said I just don't see how it's a problem when the grub setup goes through no problem and I can boot to my enu.lst using the super grub cd?

The swap should be fine and ext2 is fine. Ext3 is a bit better but 2 is plenty good enough. It does sound more like a grub problem. My connection is really slow so i couldn't dig around for you but here's where i would have startd looking up error codes in grub
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/

Sorry, hopefully someone else has a better answer
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

So I ended up just coping over the little data I had to the ntfs part this was a pretty fresh install of all os's it apears it was ext3 after all

I then booted to the ubuntu 8.04 cd deleted the linux and swap made the sawp 2 gig and the rest for the linux which was ext 3 and primary

after the install grub was back and booted into ubuntu 8.04

before getting any update

I followed the how to for the gfxboot here

http://abhay-techzone.blogspot.com/2007/10/howto-have-grub-like-suse-on-ubuntu.html

rebooted and wolla I had my cool themed bootloader

I tested booting into each os

I then got all critical security updates

after testing was still good then got recomended updates

Brilliant, nicely done. Good to hear you fixed it. Welcome to Ubuntu :)

Thanks and regards from
Tom :)