GRUB Error 2 on first boot

[Michael Mraz]

AMD AthlonXP1800+
512M DDR
8.6Gig EIDE as hdc on IDE2 (secondary Master)
Hoary 5.04 install ISO burned to CDR

Goes through the whole installation and at first boot I get:

GRUB Loading stage1.5.

GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 2

Then the system hangs at the same place on any reboot try.
This machine boots fine when using a 5.04 Live CD.

[Michael Mraz (ubuntu-mraz)]

(In reply to comment #0)

Did the install in "expert" mode and loaded LILO isntead fo GRUB.
First boot was successful.
Packages instaling out of /var as I type this...

[Marco (markmar-it)]

I have a PC with VIA EPIA M12000 with CF card Samsung and Compact Flash Card 4
GB as Primary Master (KUBUNTU 5.04 go very well!), 1GB Ram and HardDisk Maxtor
300 GB as Slave.
Sistem halt on Grub with error 2
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[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Could you try with dapper flight-2 and see if you still get this error?

Thanks
chuck

[freebieking (freebieking)]

I tried loading LILO instead of GRUB and now I get lines of "99" across the screen when I boot up. Weird! Any ideas on how to make the OS boot up correctly? Do I have to go through the whole process of installation again?

[Jonathan Carter (jonathan)]

Could you try this with Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and assess whether the bug persists?

[Aniruddha Shankar (kream)]

Encountered this error on kubuntu edgy eft.

partitioned as one big (38gb) partition (hda1) & 1 swap partition (hda5)

[Matthew Craig (matthew-t-craig)]

Seeing same problem with 7.04 AMD64 DVD install.

System is using MSI K8TN2-FIR with onboard SATA controller. Trying to install to a single drive of two Seagate 80 GB. Second drive unpartitioned for simplicity.

/boot 50 MB
/swap 1000 MB
/home 4000 MB
/ remainder

[Daemon.Krog (daemon-krog)]

I'm getting the exact same problem on my very similar machine. I get to ..

GRUB loading, please wait...

my box hangs for a long time, im not even sure how long.. i fall asleep before it happens, and then i notice the Error 2. How would i go about doing the expert install?

[Dave Watz (djwatz)]

I've been running ubuntu for some time, and just recently got the error 18 at bootup. Changed the LBA setting in the bios, and now getting "error 2". Anyone know what error 2 actually is?

[Daemon.Krog (daemon-krog)]

http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/errors.html
hope that helps a bit. If it turns out to be a dying hard drive try looking
into a program called Hard Drive Mechanic. I've used it to restore life to
some pretty dead hard drives and they've been working perfectly ever since
too. I might even have that program sitting around somewhere if you need it.
-Craig-

[Dave Watz (djwatz)]

lol... The saga continued, but I managed to put another drive in, reinstall
the older kernel complete, and with the old drive running as slave was able
to boot the recovery mode from the new grub shell. Probably a clumsy way to
do it, but got back up and running. (Wonder why it went down... wasn't a new
install, so getting the "error 18" message was a little strange)

Thanks heaps,
Dave

On 7/15/07, Daemon.Krog <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/errors.html
> hope that helps a bit. If it turns out to be a dying hard drive try
> looking
> into a program called Hard Drive Mechanic. I've used it to restore life to
> some pretty dead hard drives and they've been working perfectly ever since
> too. I might even have that program sitting around somewhere if you need
> it.
> -Craig-
>
> --
> GRUB Error 2 on first boot
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/17635
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>

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[Matthew Craig (matthew-t-craig)]

Regarding my problematic situation. I don't recall how I eventually got around the problem, but I did not have to replace a hard drive. I am still using the same drives. I was just reviewing my old bug reports and wanted to update.

[Connor Imes (ckimes)]

I am closing this bug report because the OP has not followed up and Hoary is no longer supported. Please re-open if the problem still occurs. Thank you.

[oxmox (qah-oxmox)]

hi i have the problem now with a ubuntu 9.10 beta live cd i installed new because of an other bug and tried the first time this cd and used ext3 and 4 reboot always end with error 2

its the first time that i has this error