Help - Grub error 15

[Steedmister]

Hi everyone, I am a newbe at this linux installation thing. Seemed that installation went fine untill reboot. I have installed Debian prolly a dozen times or more and burnt countless #'s of CD's, and come to the same end result.

The Grub stage 1.5 will show up, then "GRUB loading, please wait..." will show up with "Error 15" under it, and that's it. System freezes. I have done countless searches regarding this error with no luck on finding out how to trouble shoot this/fix this hang up.

Basically, Can anyone offer a solution to my problem.

Thanx
ps-Running a PII, 400 MHz, Fujitsu 6.2 gig HD

[Gaspacho]

Seems like Gentoo guys have some good documentation about this -

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122656

You generally have a problem with missing file. It needent be GRUB itself, it can be kernel or anything else. Go through that link.

[Steedmister]

I tried 2 methods that i though partained to me. No luck. Where do I get my hands on a live CD (downloadable)?

However if this error is caused while trying to install grub. And is similar to this one:Code:
grub> root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is xfs, partition type 0x83

grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no

Error 15: File not found
First of all make sure that you changed root(hd0,0) and setup (hd0) according to your systems specifications.

It may also be possible that grub uses other numbers for your drives than your kernel. So although it may be hda it could be that it is not hd0. However usually this is not the case.

I did the abouve and where it said "checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no" the 'no' was a 'yes' for both

[devils casper]

execute 'find /boot/grub/stage1' at grub> prompt. post output here.

[Steedmister]

execute 'find /boot/grub/stage1' at grub> prompt. post output here.

do i type that in at the 'press F1 for help, or Enter to boot:'?

[devils casper]

you have to boot from harddisk.

grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no

execute 'find /boot/grub/stage1' at grub> prompt and post output here.