Re: [SLUG] ubuntu ERROR 15

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2008 - 01:45:15 EST


On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Paderick Lundy wrote:

> I loaded Ubuntu server Ubuntu 7.10 and upon the mandatory reboot after
> installation I received the following message. "GRUB loading, please
> wait..." followed by ERROR 15.
>
> I then downloaded and installed the desktop version and got the same
> results. If there is a problem I suspect it might have something to do with
> the SATA HD's.
>
> Would someone be so kind as to direct me to the list that tells me what
> these error numbers mean?

http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/errors.html

It looks like 15 means

,--
| "Error while parsing number"
| This error is returned if GRUB was expecting to read a numbur and
| encountered bad data.
'--

which isn't very helpful. Googling for |grub "error 15"| got me about 30K
hits, but as I don't speak grub they weren't very helpful. Sorry.

> I haven't loaded Linux since Suse 5.3 and I thought I'd get back in the
> swing of it.

It misses you too.

-- 
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An ASCII character walks into a bar and orders a double. "Having a bad
day?" asks the barman. "Yeah, I have a parity error," replies the ASCII
chrcter. The barman says, "Yeah, I thought you looked a bit off." - Skud
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