Grub Error 15 Ubuntu 8.04
DoctorBeaver I was installing Ubuntu from CD and we had a powercut while the installation was in progress. Now, when I try to boot it says "Grub loading 1.5 please wait..." then a couple of seconds later I get "Error 15" and nothing else happens. I tried to install again from scratch but although the CD drive is accessed I get exactly the same error. Basically, I'm stuffed. Any ideas? I've got USB memory sticks, an external hard drive, external CD/DVD drive (which I've tried but got the same error) and an SDHC memory card available if any of those could offer a solution. AftershockVibe You could try the steps here after booting from the install CD: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351 DoctorBeaver AftershockVibe wrote: You could try the steps here after booting from the install CD: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351 It won't boot from the install disk. With or without the disk I get error 15. malcolmpreen I had a similar sounding problem a while back.... can't remember the exact error... but I know I couldn't boot from the hard disk, or the ubuntu install media. I was able to switch into debug mode (from grub I think.... but I'm not 100% sure) and that was suggesting that I had a problem which needed fscking.... Fine I thought.... if only I could boot somehow.... Anyway.... long story short.... I happened to have a Fedora 10 installation DVD.... I was able to boot that OK.... enter rescue mode.... and fsck the ubuntu disk.... following that... everything was good. For the record, my Ubuntu was 8.04 - if I remember I tried booting from 8.04 and 8.10 with no luck. Best of luck... in theory... assuming you have a way to get it.... any other distribution installation MIGHT be worth a go.... Malcolm DoctorBeaver Malcolm - thanks for that. I'll give it a try. Anything is worth a try because the PC is totally useless at
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and ERROR 15 « previous next » Print Pages: [1] Go Down Author Topic: Incorrect partitions and ERROR 15 (Read 4994 times) relativistic http://www.supergrubdisk.org/forum/index.php?topic=106.0 Newbie Posts: 2 Incorrect partitions and ERROR 15 « on: 2008/06/28, 21:54:20 pm https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+question/67911 » Hi all,I've royally screwed up my computer. I want to say before I start that I don't care about anything but retrieving the info from my ubuntu home drive and geting ubuntu working again. I don't even need dual boot.Anyways, here's what's happened:1. I had a windows vista / grub error ubuntu 8.04 dual boot system using GRUB.2. Got virus on windows, screwed up windows booting.3. Used Lenovo recovery partition (Came with my Thinkpad) to try to restore the C: drive. I told it to only touch the C: drive, not my ubuntu partition.4. It failed during recovery, saying something like "%s failed at recovering hard disk".5. It seems to have overriten the grub error 15 GRUB boot loader, because now some Intel thing loads. It tells me there are no bootable hard drives. Great... aparently it really screwed up.6.Okay... so I decide to scrap trying to get windows running. Lets just get my ubuntu back7. I burn a Desktop install cd for ubuntu, with the goal of first trying to just reinstall grub, and if that doesn't work reinstall the primary ubuntu partition, hoping my home directory partition is still intact.8. Ubuntu live cd freezes when I select anything.9. Person on Ubuntu forums suggest supergrub.10. I try supergrub. Somewhere along the way it completely removes what bootloader was there on the hard drive. I can't seem to automatically boot linux or automatically reconfigure the MBR for booting into linux. I get an ERROR 15, booting 'not lucky'. Also, before I had at least 5 partitions. Windows, windows recovery, linux, linux home directory, linux swap. Now when I ask for a list of partitions in SGD, I see only one 7GB Windows partitions. Way too small for my main vista partition, and I think too large for the recovery partition. Obviously somethin
just upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04 beta (from Ubuntu 8.10), and after finishing the upgrade from the network, with not error message shown at all, I rebooted the computer as requested, and then I cannot successfully boot the computer again. After the grub (1.5) menu is shown (showing the right 9.04 options and kernels), I get: "Error 15: file not found." on any of the GNU/Linux options provided at the grub menu. LONG error description: -------------------------------------- I had in my desktop computer a dual installation of Windows 2000 Professional and Ubuntu 8.04 (and several other old partitions with old deleted GNU/Linux distros on them: fedora, pclinux, ...). I attempted to connect to a new phone to the computer in order to manage all my contacts in that phone, etc. and the "Nokia Pc Suite" provided to do it didn't work under GNU/Linux, not even using Wine. And the GNU/linux alternatives (gnokii, wammu, etc.) didn't work for that phone model. Unluckily, that "Nokia Pc Suite" didn't work on Win2kpro, only on Win XP onwards (and not through virtualbox OSE, because no usb drives are supported, etc), so I decided to install Win XP also on the computer. That was by February'09. After I installed Win XP, and successfully connected the computer to the mobile phone through that "Nokia Pc Suite" software, there electricity was gone for some time while the desktop computer was working. When the electricity was recovered, I saw some "error 15: file not found" at boot time, as far as I remember. It took me a while to recover that grub boot working again, much more time that in previous years (when just win 2k had taken away the grub boot menu at the MBR): I mean, that there are several partitions with /boot/grub/ folder on them, but only on partition is the right one with the valid ubuntu. So finally I managed to recover the right boot grub menu and options, etc. (as far as I remember, bu installing the Ubuntu 8.10 on top of the partition where I used to have the Ubuntu 8.04, and re-fixing the boot through grub by hand: there was soe change in the way the menu-list syntax is written between 8.04 and 8.10, as far as I remember). The thing is that I ended up again with a working Ubuntu 8.10, with a win xp and win2k os next to it. And e