Internal Error The Second Sector Of Stage 2 Is Unknown
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times are UTC - 4 Forum index »House Training »Beginners Help ( Start Here) grub problems on PuppyLinux5 and HaikuOS r1alpha1 Moderators:Flash, Ian, JohnMurga View previous topic :: View next topic Page 1 of 1[8 Posts] Author Message nitrofurano Joined: 14 Mar 2009Posts: 15 Posted: Tue 20 Jul 2010, 18:18 Post subject: grub problems on PuppyLinux5 and HaikuOS r1alpha1 I'm now trying to have a dualboot of PuppyLinux 5.0.0 (full install on sda1 partition ext3) and HaikuOS r1 alpha1 (at sda3, in a befs (BeOS file system) partition) - but i'm having a grub error saying 'internal error: the second sector of stage 2 is unknown' I'm doing constantly 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1' (removes all mbr content, afaik) from terminal and update from PuppyUniversalInstaller (from Setup from menu), and reinstalling grub at mbr as most people reccomends, and that error message persists... Which is the most efficient way to fix this grub situation, and having both PuppyLinux and HaikuOS appearing from grub, and having both booting perfectly as wished? Thanks in advance p Back to top looseSCREWorTWO Joined: 04 Feb 2010Posts: 812Location: Australia, 1999 Toshiba laptop, 512mb RAM, no HDD, 431 Retro & 421 Retro Posted: Wed 21 Jul 2010, 05:41 Post subject: G'day, If you re-install Grub to the MBR it will just over-write what was previously in the MBR, so you don't need to use dd. Quote: i'm having a grub error saying 'internal error: the second sector of stage 2 is unknown' My guess is that the error relates to how the ext3 partition is formatted. I would make a Backup copy of the Full Install on a CD or USB, then boot from the Puppy CD. At the first pause in bootup hit the F2 key and type puppy pfix=ram (to get unfettered access to the HDD). Delete and re-create the ext3 Puppy partition using Gparted from Puppy, then either: - re-install Puppy to the ext3 partition, or - try copying it from the Backup copy you made Steve _________________Steve Back to top nitrofurano Joined: 14 Mar 2009Posts: 15 Posted: Wed 21 Jul 2010, 10:42 Post subject: this is exactly what i wanted to avoid - for me is nonsense having to backup and erase ext3 with PuppyLinux full-installed, when only fixing Grub would be enough... - and anyway, i were constantly reinstalling (full-install) PuppyLinux, and erasing whole hard disk, again and again, and the result were being all the same all the time, when the problem seems to be only at Grub... Back t