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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: jiffypop23 on May 17, 2011, 06:12:23 PM

Title: Grub installation issue
Post by: jiffypop23 on May 17, 2011, 06:12:23 PM

I have been following the Install Guide and have come to a problem.
When installing Grub, it says:

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

               Error 15: File not found

The hard drive is hda1, just like in the tutorial.
Using the file manager, I navigated to the /boot/grub/ folder and it seems the grub files are there, including stage1.
Any help will be very appreciated, thank you.

Title: Re: Grub installation issue
Post by: gerald_clark on May 17, 2011, 08:09:14 PM

Are you sure /mnt/hda1/boot/grub contains the grub files, and not just symlinks?
Did you do 'root (hd0,0)' before the 'setup (hd0)' ?

Title: Re: Grub installation issue
Post by: Guy on May 17, 2011, 10:53:58 PM

Option 1

Try setting up grub again. If you do it correctly it will work.


Option 2

There are easier ways to install Tiny Core

http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:install_hd_net

http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:install_hd_offline

http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:start

Title: Re: Grub installation issue
Post by: glene77is on May 29, 2011, 08:06:01 AM

Jiffy,

(1.) My suggestion.  :D
==>  I have used the Parted-Magic Live-CD (on bootup. select the "Extras" menu) to install grub.

The On-Boot Extras menu includes
(a) HDD Detection,
(b) Super Grub Disk 1,
(c) Super Grub Disk 2,
(d) MHDD (?),
(e) Plop Boot Manager (?). 
Only available at On-Boot Live-CD time. 
Running from the HD, booting from a running grub, will bypass this Extras menu.   

(!) I have been keeping a Parted-Magic Live-CD beside the computer because it enables me to recover from a "mucking" session.   Patrick Verneer has done a fine soft-ware engineering project with this.

(2.) Puppy 5.25 has an application for installing grub and  grub4dos.  Can be done from the Live-CD.

(3.) I use grub4dos on my "sand-box" computer, with 7 Linux OS, installed to sda0, a dedicated "Boot-Code" partition.  Works as advertised. Looks very M$-DOS, like the old days.   

(4.) I use grub2 on my XP/Ubuntu computer
(also with TinyCore and Parted-Magic OS copied into the WP ntfs partition)
and it runs as advertised.  Nice graphic splash options.  :)

buena suerta,
glene77is