Re: Help on stage 1.5 error 5

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Ulrich Leschinski wrote:
> I have two HDs.
> The first one has to Windows bootloader.
> The second one Grub in the MBR.

> The 2nd HD (160 MB) has four logical
> partitions, the last two ones are for LINUX.
> I installed GRUP first via the LINUX installation
> routine, afterwards natively. Always I get this error
> 5 (partition table invalid).

> I analysed the HD with testdisk utility. It seems to
> be ok. When I boot WIN XP from the first part. on this
> HD it works. FDISK does not report something strange.
> I appreciate any help. Thank you.

Could be a bug in GRUB's partition walking code.
If you want to be more informative, a "fdisk -l /dev/hd?" would
probably be helpful.