Grub Error 24
Today's Posts Advanced Search Find the answer to your Linux question: Entire Site Articles Downloads Forums Linux Hosting Forum Your Distro SuSE Linux [SOLVED] GRUB Error 24 If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. ** If you are logged in, most ads will not be displayed. ** Linuxforums now supports the Tapatalk app for your mobile device. Results 1 to 7 of 7 Thread: [SOLVED] GRUB Error 24 Thread Tools Show Printable Version Email this Page… Subscribe to this Thread… Display Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode Enjoy an ad free experience by logging in. Not a member yet? Register. 08-25-2009 #1 kidtroopa View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message View Articles Just Joined! Join Date Aug 2009 Posts 3 [SOLVED] GRUB Error 24 Need Help :-< I am not familiar with Linux at all...and got a server with SUSE Linux Ent v10 on me. It was working fine until recently....when we had to reboot it due to a power outage. Now when it loads.....it states.... GRUB loading Stage 1.5 GRUB loading...please wait.....then Error 24. I'm able to Boot Installed System with the CD.........and tried repairing the Boot Loader.....and can't. Any ideas...suggestion? I've searched various forums on the net....and none of the suggestions seem to help. I tried creating a new boot loader and still get the same error on reboot. Tried to re-install grub with no success. 08-25-2009 #2 oz View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message View Articles forum.guy Join Date May 2004 Location arch linux Posts 18,732 Welcome to the forums! Please post your grub configuration file (menu.lst) if you can so that we can have a look at it and offer some help. oz 08-25-2009 #3 D-cat View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message View Articles Linux Guru Join Date Jan 2009 Location Bounce between Dover, NH - Shapleigh, ME Posts 1,638 The power glitch may have rendered a small part of the hard drive unreadable. I'd use fsck -fcky [device] from the boot cd recovery console to test the drive for errors fir
I originally thought... At any rate, I decided it would make more sense to just reinstall and start fresh than to try and pick up the pieces. After going through the reinstall, formatting my OS hard drive and installing Ubuntu, it asked for a reboot. When it restarted, I hit the following Grub error:Error 24: Attempt to access block outside partitionAfter doing a ton of searching online, I finally figured out that this was a problem with my menu.lst file that Grub uses to boot. In my case, it was attempting to boot off the wrong HD with the line:boot (hd4,0)To http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/suse-linux/151999-solved-grub-error-24-a.html correct this, I had to do a temporary and then a permanent fix. The temporary fix is needed to get Ubuntu to boot at all, and because I wasn't able to figure out an effective way to edit the menu.lst file without being able to boot into Ubuntu in the first place...So, for the temporary fix, when you start (or reboot) your computer, wait for the Grub loading stage and hit http://jaykinzer.blogspot.com/2008/08/grub-error-24-attempt-to-access-block.html escape to interrupt the countdown (usually 3 seconds by default) and enter the grub menu. Once in the Grub menu, hit 'e' to begin editing. Look for the line that starts with 'boot' and make sure it's set to 'boot (hd0,0)'. If it's not, go down to that line if you're not already on it and hit 'e' to edit that line. Change 'hdX' (where X is any number NOT 0) to 'hd0' and hit enter to accept the change. Then hit 'b' to boot with those settings. *NOTE* If your boot line was set to (hd0,0), check here for other alternatives.Once you've done this, you should be able to boot Ubuntu. Now you need to make sure you don't have to do this every time! To do this...Open a terminal and type:'sudo vi /boot/grub/menu.lst'This will open your menu.lst file for editing. (If you're not used to editing in vi, you can also try gedit by typing 'gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst')In either case, once you have the file open, navigate down past all the commented lines (lines starting with '#') towards the bottom of the file. There you'll see three sections, one to load Ubuntu, one to load Ubuntu in recovery mode, and one to run the Ubuntu memtest. In all th
error string and then halt. Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del will reboot. The following is a comprehensive list of error messages for the Stage 1: "Hard Disk Error" This error message will occur if the Stage 2 or Stage 1.5 is being read from a http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/errors.html hard disk, and the attempt to determine the size and geometry of the hard disk fails. "Floppy Error" This error message will occur if the Stage 2 or Stage 1.5 is being read from a floppy disk, and the attempt to determine the size and geometry of the floppy disk fails. It's listed as a different error since the probe sequence is different than for hard disks. "Read Error" This error message will occur if a disk read error happens while trying to read the grub error Stage 2 or Stage 1.5. "Geom Error" This error message will occur if the location of the Stage 2 or Stage 1.5 is not in the area supported by reading the disk with the BIOS directly. This could occur because the BIOS translated geometry has been changed by the user or the disk is moved to another machine or controller after installation, or GRUB was not installed using itself (if it was, the Stage 2 version of this error would have been seen during that grub error 24 process and it would not have completed the install). Errors Reported by the Stage 1.5 The general way that the Stage 1.5 handles errors is to print an error number in the form "Error: " and then halt. Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del will reboot. The error numbers correspond to the Errors Reported by the Stage 2 in the listed sequence. Errors Reported by the Stage 2 The general way that the Stage 2 handles errors is to abort the operation in question, print an error string, then (if possible) either continue based on the fact that an error occurred or wait for the user to deal with the error. The following is a comprehensive list of error messages for the Stage 2 (error numbers for the Stage 1.5 are listed before the colon in each description): 1 : "Selected item won't fit into memory" This error is returned if a kernel, module, or raw file load command is either trying to load it's data such that it won't fit into memory or it is simply too big. 2 : "Selected disk doesn't exist" This error is returned if the device part of a device- or full filename refers to a disk or BIOS device that is not present or not recognized by the BIOS in the system. 3 : "Disk read error" This error is returned if there is a disk read error when trying to probe or read data from a particular disk. 4 : "Disk write error" This error is returned if the