Software :: GRUB Legacy Chainloading Grub2 (ubuntu) Not Loading, Goes Text Mode?

Jun 15, 2011

I use openSuSE and want to try Ubuntu.This is the layout of the partitions:

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sda1 /boot (SuSE)
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Fedora :: Chainloading Grub2 From Grub 1?

Feb 1, 2011

A little background: my primary install is fedora 9, I'm migrating to 14, and I need to change some partitioning (but not the F9, which is first on the drive). Because I installed a newer ubuntu a while back, I've been using ubuntu's grub2. That ubuntu partition needs to be moved, so I re-installed the grub 1 from F9 onto the MBR so the F9 doesn't depend on anything else.

This is when I learned grub 1 does not support booting ext4 partitions (which ubuntu uses). However, fedora claims that you can install grub 2 and have it chainloaded from grub 1, and in fact yum install adds a line to your existing grub 1 config to do so. That seemed like a nice solution since then all I would have to do is copy some grub.conf from the ubuntu partition into the F9 grub 2.

However, chainloading grub 2 does not seem to work very well. At all. I get to the grub 2 menu, but any option I choose -- including loading the F9 partition on which both grub 1 and 2 are installed, using the default config created by the installer, leads to an "unrecognized command" error, as if grub 1 was crapping out on a grub 2 config.

Anyone else had this problem? Better yet, has anyone done this successfully with any fedora version? I can backup ubuntu and copy it back in after I re-work my partitions, but while I'd prefer not to have to use grub 2 on the MBR, I'd still like to be able to boot ubuntu.

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General :: Chainloading With Grub And Grub2?

Dec 20, 2010

I multi-boot Windows XP and 5 Linux distros on a single hard drive. Some of the distros come and go but I keep at least two that are my daily use distros. My boot loader is grub1 located on a ext3 formatted distro. I have installed a distro that requests the partition be formatted ext4, which I did. I have been trying to edit my grub1 menu.lst so that I can chainload the ext4 distro get errors or it goes to the command line with the last word being Grub. My question is, can grub1 ext3 chainload a grub2 ext4 distro?

Here is a sample of my menu.lst
Code:
title MEPIS at sda7, newest kernel
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda7 nomce quiet splash vga=789
initrd /boot/initrd.img
boot

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Mepis is the location of my menu.lst and is ext3 on sda7 and aptosid is the ext4 distro that I am trying to boot on sda9 and it uses grub2.

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Ubuntu :: Grub2 Took Over Grub Legacy?

Jul 17, 2010

I had Arch Linux installed on my machine on sda1 and the Grub legacy that came on their install image on the MBA at sda/. I just did a Ubuntu update and it wanted me to do an update and me thinking grub-install referred to grub legacy, went along with it but now I have Grub2 for my boot menu. There are a few guides on restoring Grub2 I've found but how do I put Grub back on to how I had it? (I thought installing grub legacy from Arch's usb image I have would be simple and fairly automated/easy but it won't let me without doing the previous steps of partitioning drives and selecting packages to install and such so it looks like I'm going to have to do it manually which I haven't done before).

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Ubuntu Installation :: Keep Sda First But To Place Grub2 Instead Of Grub Legacy?

Mar 11, 2011

I installed yesterday the 11.4 openSUSE to my desktop pC (in my 160hdd that previous had WinVista).The bad thing was that I used grub from opensuse to be installed to MBR.openSUSE uses Grub 1.5 and I want grub2.Now I cannot see Ubuntu when grub legacy loads.I will post the results from

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fdisk -l
later today (cause i am not in my pc)

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Ubuntu Installation :: Failure After Trying To Upgrade From Legacy Grub To Grub2

May 21, 2011

I moved from 8.04.2 to 10.04.2 and tried to upgrade from GRUB Legacy to Grub2. I must have made a mis-step somewhere in the process as on boot it now tells me

Code:
GRUB Loading stage1.5.
GRUB Loading,
Error 15
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Is there a nuke from orbit, no finesse way of just ripping all the existing GRUB mess out and installing GRUB2 from Boot disk? for instance should I be just be able to boot with a LIVE CD mount the primary disk of this machine and enter the below in a terminal without messing up any further?

Code:
sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/PRIMARY_DISK /dev/sda

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General :: GRUB2 (not Grub Legacy) Included In What Dist

Mar 11, 2010

GRUB2 (not grub legacy) included in what dist? (expect ubuntu)

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Software :: Incorporate A Grub2 OS Into A Menu.lst File In Grub Legacy?

Mar 6, 2011

I have a "master" IDE HD upon which reside several Linux OSs and a couple of Windoze OSs. The boot system is Mandriva using Grub Legacy and the latter's menu.lst file is where I select which OS I wish to use. I use HD physical carriers for my HDs. I used GPartEd to copy over newly installed OSs on another drive to the "master" HD. The commands in the menu.lst file for Linux OSs are representative as follows:

Name of OS
root (hdx,x)
configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst

Task: Enter Grub2 which, I seem to understand, is a work in progress. I presume that some commands in Grub2 are not recognizable by Grub Legacy. I installed Debian 6 on another drive and I wish to incorporate an entry in the menu.lst file described above using the technique described above. Is it possible to use the menu.lst file in Grub Legacy (0.97) in order to boot the Grub2 Debian OS? Or am I chasing windmills?

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Ubuntu Installation :: Install Without Grub2 (use Existing Fine Working Grub Legacy)

Oct 2, 2010

I have a dual boot config with

sda1 /boot
sda2 Win7
sda3 /
sda4 Truecrypt Partition

i have grub1 working and chaonloading truecrypt loader if i choose "win7" in grub1 menu I want to install a new kubuntu (no upgrade) I have read that that there are problems with grub2 and truecrypt actually a bug that grub2 dont chainloads truecrypt boot loader many ppl seem to have problems with grub2 then i read somewhere that ubuntu install is not asking for grub2 to be installed and just installing it. is this right?

i think at least for the alternative install cd its wrong. i installed it on another pc and it asked me! it works for win7 and Ubuntu and i guess its grub2 but there is no truecrypt installed anyway, i wanted to ask is the live cd installer asks me for grub2 and what is the best and easiest way to stay with my grub and just change the menu.lst to the new kernel (i guess there will be one)

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Ubuntu :: Booting Windows From Grub2 Without Chainloading?

Jun 4, 2010

if it is possible to boot windows without the chainload option. I don't have xp on the first partition and I don't want to load xp bootloader on the first partition because it will overwrite grub2. All I want to do is boot xp directly from grub, is this not possible? Can't I just load the kernel like I do with linux? I've never had luck with getting grub2 to load xp, P.S. grub version is 1.97 from ubuntu 9.1 install

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General :: Chainloading Grub2 For A Multiboot Setup?

Nov 24, 2010

Don't know if I should have posted in Ubuntu specific section but since it involves grub2 and a quirk in my bios, I have attempted to multiboot 3 Windows versions and the problem I had was intalling a second Ubuntu. (Don't ask!) I had success multibooting with grub legacy on an older computer but this computer has a tricky mb which won't let me install grub to the second drive on an IDE port. What I mean by this is that since I already had boot files to the older drive in mbr- it won't allow me to install to mbr of the other drive in IDE port even if set first in bios boot order, my old computer allowed me to do so, exept perhaps its because 2 HDD were SCSI... (I have other HDD installed in RAID 0 on the other sata ports supported by mb (fakeraid) but I will use these for video editing as scratch disks later. One other HDD used for data is on the Raid port but not in an array).

I succeeded in installing Ubuntu desktop only after realising that I had to first switch my disk order in bios- otherwise the system would just hang. U. Desktop grub had sucessfully found Win bootloader links to both XP and Vista. I then installed Win 7 and used easy BCD and grub2 boot entry to link back to my Ubuntu Desktop grub 2 menu.

The problem occured when installing Ubuntu Studio ( for which I created a separate /boot partition) and I decided to install grub2 to mbr since it had correctly detected all my OSes! But then it seems it never installed correctly to the mbr. I still had Win 7 BCD bootloader in MBR! I tried to link easy BCD boot entry to the /boot drive but that didn't work and I ended up having to reinstall Win7 because I had overrid the BCD with faulty neogrub mapping entries- which I then removed and kept the orginal neogrub that still points to Ubuntu Desktop grub menu.

I also now realise that because I installed Ubuntu Desktop before I switched the HDD boot order in bios- U. Desktop's grub.cfg sees root of Desktop grub differently than neogrub BCD does root=(hd4,7) vs multiboot kludge (hd3,6) and at first I tried to install grub in the wrong hdds and partitions- I based mapping on neogrub's to find /Boot (hd3,2) and (hd3, 1) which is wrong!

What I am attempting to do now is to chainload grub2 from my Ubuntu studio located in /Boot with what I thought was the right mapping but still no success:

menuentry 'Chainloader' {
insmod chain
set root=(hd4,2)
chainloader +1
}

yielded error: hd 4,2 cannot get C/H/S values press any key to continue, also when in terminal in Ubuntu Desktop in
grub> find /grub/core.img
Error 15: File not found

I will attach Boot_info_script; at this point I am too tired and afraid that I will keep on installing grub to the wrong drive!

Note: I somehow got a problem loading into XP after all these failed attempts and a system 32 file seems to have gotten lost-haven"t attempted to fix yet. Just wondering in passing what happens if I chainloaded into Windows by error- if that could have corrupted it? Right now 3 out of 5 OS are bootable. I hope I can repair it without messing up my mbr again. Another issue is that some devices are on busy IRQs and then suddenly its resolved and my onboard LAN suddenly stops working at times so I don't know if any of this could cause XP to get stuck at loading screen.

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Ubuntu Security :: Dual Booting With Truecrypt 6.3a Chainloading Grub2

Jan 4, 2010

I'm having problems getting TC to load grub2 1.97b4. When I hit ESC from the TC boot prompt, I get "no bootable partitions found".

I also booted into Ubuntu Live cd, mounted my LVM dm-crypted volume and tried to reinstall grub2 to my nonencrypted /boot under /dev/sda3 and TC still wont boot. Then I set the boot flag on /dev/sda3 and it still won't boot.

These are the commands I used to install grub2 to my /boot partition. Atleast that's what I think it did.

update-grub
grub-install /dev/sda3
grub-install --recheck /dev/sda3

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General :: Chainloading From Grub2 To Sys On A USB Drive / Boot Error?

Mar 23, 2011

Alright, what I thought would be a simple task has me tied in knots.

I wanted to make a multiboot USB flash drive that I could easily manipulate to switch to various distros easily. My plans were:

1. Partition my 8GB drive to one large first partition (5GB) so that windows could access it. (P.S. GParted didn't partition correctly, needed to use fdisk. THIS MIGHT BE IMPORTANT IN SOLVING THE PROBLEM BECAUSE THERE MIGHT BE A BLOCK ERROR). I then made an extended partition with 5 500MB logical partitions.

2. Install Grub2 to MBR from Ubuntu

3. Expand ISO's of varios distros (Acronis Recovery, Puppy linux, etc.)
to the partitions, and create syslinux.cfg files for each (from the isolinux.cfg files that were already there)

4. Install syslinux to each partition's boot sector

Code:
#syslinux /dev/sdb5...
5. make grub.cfg on /dev/sdb1 chainload each partition.

THE GRAND PROBLEM:

Grub2 loads, but when selecting what I want to boot, I get the error

Boot error

which is syslinux, not grub2. So I know it's chainloading, but syslinux doesn't seem to find ldlinux.sys.

P.S. I'm not asking for other ways to make a multiboot drive, I know I can just direct boot from Grub2, but I want to be able to pass the boot to the boot loaders on the other logical partitions.

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Ubuntu Installation :: Grub2 "upgrade From Legacy" Wants To "GRUB Install Devices"?

May 2, 2010

I've installed grub2 on 10.04, when I restarted I selected that option in the menu that seems to go for testing the chainloader. The system seemed to start ok, so I ran upgrade-from-grub-legacy. Now it's asking me for "GRUB install devices" and listing my hard drive (/dev/sda) and the 5 partitions on it as possible options. Which should I choose? I have Linux and Windoze running on this desktop,

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Slackware :: Chainloading To Grub ?

Dec 21, 2010

I'm setting up a dual-boot for a friend with Ubuntu Studio and Slackware 13.1. Slackware will be the primary OS and Lilo will control the bootloader. After doing some research it seemed to me the best way would be to chainload grub from the lilo menu, so when I installed Ubuntu I stuck Grub in the Ubuntu root partition instead of the MBR and added the following to Slackware's lilo.conf:

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It's not working. It just errors out and asks me to boot something else when I select Ubuntu_Studio from the lilo menu. I've never tried this before so I'm sure I'm making a really basic error;

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Ubuntu :: Grub2 Isn't Loading Error "grub Rescue No Such Disk"

Apr 15, 2010

I just installed Ubuntu 10.4 beta. The installation is fine, but grub2 isn't loading Linux. Instead of booting into the OS, I get the message: No such disk grub rescue >I have two hard drives: /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. Ubuntu is the only OS and is located on /dev/sda1. I ran the "boot info" script and include the results here. One problem I see is that I have grub2 on the MDRs of both /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. BTW: From the Live CD, I can select boot into hard drive and Ubuntu will start up just fine. I can also use "Super Grub" CD and everything loads fine.

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General :: Will Grub2 Boot Everything That Legacy Does

Dec 30, 2010

The reason I ask is I have not tried on bsd, solaris or a few others.

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Fedora :: Grub Starts In Text Mode After Deleting All ATI And Catalyst Stuff?

Jul 3, 2011

use Fedora 15. I had installed driver for my ATI graphic card, as it was written in Fedora guide, then when I rebooted the system the bars and icons appeared with strange, changed colours (purple, green, etc). I've read that this happened because of the bad drivers, so I tried to fix it. Unfortunatelly because I'm Linux newbie and I'm also very nervous I deleted (using Fedora software manager) everything connectedtalyst from my system.Now when I try to start my computer, grub starts in text mode.My question is:What can I do? Do I have to reinstall my system or maybe someone knows how to fix it?I'm quite scared because now I can't launch not only Fedora but also Windows.(I'm writing from another computer

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Ubuntu :: Get The Version Of GRUB / GRUB-legacy To Boot Any Recent Windows 64 Beyond XP (Vista Or 7)

Dec 20, 2010

I've been using Linux for over a decade, so no need to worry about the obvious. I'm positive that I have my partitions/install correct. What has me baffled is that Fedora 14, which uses GRUB 0.97 (GRUB legacy) - boots Windows flawlessly every single time on the same hardware, but Ubuntu's (or the upstream Debian's) GRUB legacy do not - even though they are based on the same upstream code from the GNU Savannah servers.

No matter what I've tried I cannot get the Debian or Ubuntu version of GRUB/GRUB-legacy to boot any recent Windows 64 beyond XP (Vista or 7). All that it does is resets the computer when Windows attempts to boot, without an error. GRUB is notoriously difficult to compile, so before I try to compile code from RedHat's archives - any thoughts,experiences, similar issues - whatever?

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OpenSUSE Install :: GRUB Chainloading Removed Boot-flag

Dec 13, 2009

I had my BIOS complaing that there were no OS. (worked since releaseday of 11.2).

partition setup:

sda1 : primary : swap
sda2 : primary : ext3 : Kubuntu
sda3 : primary : ext3 : opensuse (flagged as bootable)
sda5 : logical
sda6 : logical

opensuses GRUB is primary and Kubuntus is chainloaded.

The problem occurred after I tried to boot kubuntu for the first time since I installed opensuse. Kubuntu didn't boot. so I probably set up chainloading wrong. No big deal, this I can fix.

The big problem was that after trying to boot Kubuntu no OS was marked as "Boot" in MBR. This is VERY strange. somehow the boot-flag is removed!

After setting the boot-flag (with a live-CD) everything works again. I can reproduce this.

I've tried to find answers but could'nt find any.

Is GRUB supposed to remove the boot-flag when chainloading? have I found a bug?

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Fedora :: Can't Dual Booting With Grub (legacy) - Black Screen Grub Error 27

Jul 31, 2011

is it ever possible to do dual booting with grub(legacy) ever at all!. it is possible provided i take some pain, here is the link of that post [URL] i was coward and weak i didn't try that out then. but i did try it out. now so if u haven't seen the post .... I've installed Fedora 15 desktop(Gnome) with physical Logical volume called vg_fedora lv_root(ext4) ,lv_swap and lv_home(ext4), with 500MB /boot partition and had about 200GB free hard disk space ... so i wanted to install Scientific Linux 6.1 (because our school uses RHEL 6.1)

so, while running the installer I made (added) a logical volume lv_Scientific with ext4 FS and made its mount point (/) and used the MBR /boot which overwrote the Fedora /boot (completely OK and was as expected) i restarted after installation i got SL log in and as per the directions of the thread i copied the boot stanza from grub.conf of fedora 15 (which i already had copied and pasted into a text file and copied it from there)and pasted it into grub.conf of SL you may ask why did i choose same physical LVM too save swap space ... if i had made another physical LVM i had to make another swap ( i like LVM ... its cool)

completely unexpected happened Fedora now boots but not SL when grub starts i get this error 27 unrecognised commad and when i press <enter> i get grub menu with SL and fedora when i press on Fedora it works well i get my fedora login and i did login .. everything works fine but when i press SL it goes to the previous black screen grub error 27

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Jun 2, 2011

I had Fedora 14 (x86) and Windows XP with Grub Legacy (Grub) for dual boot in my desktop.

I installed Debian and Grub 2 replaced Grub in the MBR.

Must I reinstall F14 to recover Grub as bootloader or is there another lighter way to do it?

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Jul 19, 2010

how to replace grub2 with grub-legacy hassle-free? I mean, is there any danger in doing the following procedure: purging grub2 and installing the legacy version after that? I'm using Squeeze system with ext4.

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May 25, 2010

Is fedora 13 using GRuB 2 or still uses GRuB legacy?

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May 23, 2010

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I'm assuming the MBR on my harddrive is lost, however I don't know what state the partition is in. I'm guessing that maybe this has been lost as well. I tried a few tools from the Ultimate Boot CD but nothing here was able to re-install my grub or boot from any partition or even mount my file-system. I'm fearing the worst but would like it confirmed before I blow it all away with a new install.

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Jul 20, 2010

I intend to re-install open suse 11.2, 32-bit. On a previous install,suse did not provide a grub entry for ubuntu.My current setup has

ubuntu/root on /dev/sda6
ubuntu/home on /dev/sda7
ubuntu/usr/local on /dev/sda8

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Ubuntu Installation :: GRUB Legacy Not Showing New OS (10.10)

Dec 18, 2010

My laptop came with Vista and I added Linux Mint 6 (based on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex) all is good for a year or so. Added Ubuntu 10.10 to my desktop, loved it, wanted to add it to my laptop...oops.

Installed the main version from a LiveCD, did the the easy multi-OS installation.

GRUB-0.97 is what boots my system though looking at boot script I do have GRUB2 somewhere.

Currently, my boot options are:

1. Mint 6

2. Mint 6 (recovered)

3. Mint 6

4. Mint 6 (recovered)

5. memtest 86+

Other operating systems

6. Vista/Longhorn loader

7. Vista/Longhorn loader

Sda7 is where Ubuntu should be installed. GPARTED says its ext3 file system and bootscript says ext4.

I did find the forum post on purging and installing GRUB2 though I'm not sure if that's what I need to do, or try to reinstall Ubuntu w/o also doing partition resizing at the same time.

The output from my bootscript:

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Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub 0.97 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in partition #5 for /boot/grub/stage2 and /boot/grub/menu.lst.

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May 17, 2011

It's a little silly to ask this, as I am about to try it anyway, but is it theoretically possible to use a GRUB Legacy USB boot cd to boot a distro beyond 9.04? Or do I need to get to reading about GRUB 2?EDIT: As the USB Boot CD needs to be created from the GRUB files existing inside the Distro that it is intended to boot, this is impossible. Question answered.DIT EDIT: Unless I revert to GRUB legacy inside the Distro itself. Ok. Neat. I guess I just needed a place to write it down to figure it out

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Jun 30, 2010

I've Win XP installed on sda1 initially. Then I installed Centos on sdb (boot partition on sdb1 and root on sdb2). I chose to install grub to MBR of sda. The Centos installation automatically created an entry in the menu.lst file and I can successfully boot either into XP or Centos.

Now I went ahead and installed Ubuntu 10.04 to sdb4. Both Centos and Ubuntu are sharing the swap partition at sdb3. When I was installing Ubuntu, I chose not to install grub because I wanted the grub already installed to boot all three. After Ubuntu was installed, I logged into Centos and added the following entry in its menu.lst [so I modified (sdb1)/boot/grub/menu.lst ]

Code:
title Ubuntu 10.04
root (hd1,3)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic ro root=/dev/sdb4 splash quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-21-generic

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