Grub stage1 file error

[Robert L Cochran]

Of course this is supposedly a fresh install of Fedora 2. The original 
complaint is that the machine won't boot. There could be many reasons 
why not and it seems very clear to me that partitioning and grub is 
probably not at fault here. With a little thinking:

Fedora creates ext3 partitions by default. There have been no reports of 
it creating FAT16 partitions.

There have been no reports by others of Grub having significant 
problems. At least, I haven't noticed any, and a search of Bugzilla 
shows no bug reports for grub.

The real problem is elsewhere and won't be solved with fdisk. The person 
having this problem should post the dmesg output, if it still exists by 
now.

Bob

Michal Jaegermann wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 09:58:49PM +0300, Ossama Khayaat wrote:
> 
>>Michael and Michael, thanks very much for your responses.
>>I'll try to use 'parted' to check the type of partition again.
>>The problem is that even when I created a GRUB boot disk, and used the
>>GRUB command line to manually boot the partition, it couldn't read it.
> 
> .....
> 
>>One more question is, say that it is a FAT16 partition,
> 
> 
> I tried to explain that the most likely reason for the first problem
> is that second one (which is really only a "problem" and trivial to
> fix).
> 
> 
>>and I want to
>>convert it to ext3 without formatting. How can I do this?
> 
> 
> If you really have on it a FAT file system then you cannot.  But if
> a file system is ext3 and only a tag in a partition table shows a
> "wrong type" then just fire up fdisk, or sfdisk, and simply change
> it.  It is a 't' request in fdisk and 'man sfdisk' has an example
> showing how to change a partition type.  After that try installing
> grub again.
> 
> Here is a literal quote from 'man sfdisk':
> 
>                                     ... This option has  the  two
>               very  long  forms  --print-id and --change-id.  For
>               example:
>                   % sfdisk --print-id /dev/hdb 5
>                   6
>                   % sfdisk --change-id /dev/hdb 5 83
>                   OK
>               first reports that /dev/hdb5 has  Id  6,  and  then
>               changes that into 83.
> 
>    Michal
> 
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