[SOLVED] GfxBoot on Ubuntu

[Kornfan71]

Hello,
I just got Ubuntu 9.04 and love it. However, there is something that has been bugging me that I've been trying to do, and failing in doing so, even in the last version.

I want to have GfxBoot!

I've been following a page at the Ubuntu Forums (Google "GFXboot for ubuntu" and it's the 1st result...apparently I need 15 posts to put in a URL ) , and I keep running into an error come time to install GRUB.

It tells me that "stage1" cannot be found...anywhere.
This is odd, seeing as I have it on multiple partitions of BOTH of my HDDs. However, this is the exact problem that I ran into on Ubuntu 8.10.

What am I doing wrong?

(By the way, I can't just tell it what root to use and install it there; GRUB tells me:

grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 

Error 15: File not found

grub> root (hd1,5)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

grub> setup (hd1)
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
 Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no

Error 2: Bad file or directory type

Help?

[devils casper]

Post the output of sudo fdisk -l command and contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst file here. You can use LiveCD of Ubuntu or any other distro for that.

[Kornfan71]

OK, for sudo fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5b6ac646

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        7308    58701478+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2   *        7309       14593    58516762+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14589 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9dc96e9e

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1           5       40131   de  Dell Utility
/dev/sdb2   *           6        7465    59922450    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb3            7466        9553    16771072    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb4            9554       14589    40451670    5  Extended
/dev/sdb5            9555       11189    13133137+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb6           11190       12824    13133106   83  Linux
/dev/sdb7           12825       14459    13133106   83  Linux
/dev/sdb8           14460       14589     1044193+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

To clarify a little here:
sda1 = NTFS storage
sda2 = Sabayon Linux 4

sdb1 = Dell Utility Partition
sdb2 = Windows Vista
sdb3 = Windows 7 Beta
sdb5 = Kubuntu 9.04
sdb6 = Ubuntu 9.04
sdb7 = openSUSE 11.1
sdb8 = Swap

And, my menu.lst is attached, since it is so long!
The last bits of it (after the entries that point to other menus) don't matter, I've just been forgetting to delete them! (Half of them are wrong anyway...)

[devils casper]

Were you using Sybayon's Boot Loader earlier? It looks like BIOS/GRUB compatibility problem.

[Kornfan71]

It's very interesting.
My default boot device is my SATA drive (/dev/sdb), and the main bootloader there is Ubuntu's. Sabayon is installed on my IDE drive (/dev/sda...I thought it should be hda?).

The GRUB on /dev/sda is still intact, I am currently using that to boot because...

I attempted to reinstall GRUB, and ended up with nothing there, so I used the LiveCD to attempt to recover GRUB. Now I get something like:

Loading GRUB stage 1.5.

Error 2

Which means nothing much to me.
Do you have any idea as to how I can rectify the mess I just got myself into?

Thanks....

[Kornfan71]

Well, I managed to get GRUB working again, so I think I'll leave it at that and get a splash screen instead of GfxBoot....

Thanks for your help, though!