I have a new Lenovo G530 laptop that came with Vista in three partitions:
1. Vista Preload 2. Main Vista 3. Lenovo Recovery
All are NTFS. I installed 11.1 from DVD shrinking the main Vista partition to make room. On the latest iteration, I have these partitions:
sda4 - w95 Extended sda5 - /boot sda6 - / sda7 - swap sda8 - /home
Everything runs fine until it tries to install GRUB:
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" hd(0,3) failed Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" hd(0,4) failed Running "install --force-lba --stage2=/boot/grub/stage1 hd(0,3) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu.lst" failed
Error 22
I have tried Repair to no avail. I can boot into Rescue mode and manually mount /boot and root and everything is there and looks fine. I found an article on this forum archive that says to uncheck everything but the MBR option but I never see that screen.
If I could find my 11.0 DVD I would use that and then upgrade. (I had to do this on an old desktop.)
Meanwhile, I suspect this has something to do with trying to write to both sda4 and sda5 but I am NO GRUB guru.
Any idea as to what is wrong and how I can recover from it short of finding my 11.0 media?
Thank you, Lucky Leavell In fact I would take 11.1's Grub installation as a BUG(which should now happen to a GM release verision, guys should be more Hard : ) ) way back,I always got problem on its grub installation, it chooses to not boot from MBR (maybe take care about the IBM laptops, I dont need this). so, what I do then ? after fresh installation, I use RESCURE mode to boot, and then, mount the /boot partition, there should be a file "mbr_backup" or so, use dd if=/pathtombr_backup/mbr_backup of=/dev/sda count=446 bs=1 maybe yours is /dev/hda or what. this would work for you.