[SOLVED] GRUB Error 24

[kidtroopa]

Need Help :-< I am not familiar with Linux at all...and got a server with SUSE Linux Ent v10 on me. It was working fine until recently....when we had to reboot it due to a power outage. Now when it loads.....it states.... GRUB loading Stage 1.5
GRUB loading...please wait.....then Error 24.

I'm able to Boot Installed System with the CD.........and tried repairing the Boot Loader.....and can't.

Any ideas...suggestion? I've searched various forums on the net....and none of the suggestions seem to help. I tried creating a new boot loader and still get the same error on reboot. Tried to re-install grub with no success.

[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

Please post your grub configuration file (menu.lst) if you can so that we can have a look at it and offer some help.

[D-cat]

The power glitch may have rendered a small part of the hard drive unreadable. I'd use fsck -fcky [device] from the boot cd recovery console to test the drive for errors first (use fdisk -l to figure out what "[device]" should be, likely something like /dev/hda1).

[kidtroopa]

Here is what the .conf file contains:

root(hd1.0)

install -stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 (hd1,0) /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd1,0)/boot/grub/menu.lst

quit


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I will try the file systems check in the mean time. Thank you both.

[Lakshmipathi]

According to error codes: GNU GRUB Manual 0.97

24 : Attempt to access block outside partition
This error is returned if a linear block address is outside of the disk partition. This generally happens because of a corrupt filesystem on the disk or a bug in the code handling it in GRUB (it's a great debugging tool).

and tried repairing the Boot Loader.....and can't

could you please explain what's the error message you got ? You tried to re-install grub or something else?

[D-cat]

root(hd1.0)

install -stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 (hd1,0) /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd1,0)/boot/grub/menu.lst

Are you booting (or trying to boot) from the second hard drive in the BIOS order?

[kidtroopa]

Thanks to all who responded. Here is what I did to fix my issue:

1. Installed SUSE Ent V10 SP1 - It updated files...but still received GRUB error 24 on reboot
2. Ran a repair.......it repaired some items...but still got Grub error 24 on reboot
3. Installed SUSE Ent v10 SP2 -- It upgraded items....and allowed the server to reboot successfully on its own.