Re: fixing the "grub loading stage1.5" hanging error

[adrian15]

Michael L. Gualtieri wrote:
> Thanks, adrian15!  Your info was able to help me drill down farther to 
> the error.
You're welcome.
> It looks like grub is hanging on this line of the source:
> file: stage2/bios.c
> line: err = biosdisk_int13_extensions ((read + 0x42) << 8, drive, &dap);
Ok.
> biosdisk_int13_extensions is an assembler function, so I'm not really 
> sure how to figure out what line in the assembly it is hanging on.
I'm not sure too. I'll take a look at it perhaps at home.
> If anyone has any ideas on what is happening in this function, or how to 
> possibly debug this further I'm all ears.
>
>
> adrian15,
> You mentioned that to work around this error I should link the stage1 to 
> the stage2 directly.  I'm not exactly sure how to do this.  Do you have 
> a link to where this is in the documentation?

Basically what you have to do is rename your stage1_5 file and then 
installing grub as always with the root and setup command. stage1_5 will 
not be found an stage1 will link directly to stage2.

How do you rename an stage1_5 file? Something so easy as this:

mv /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 /boot/grub/REMOVED_e2fs_stage1_5

If you re-install grub with the grub-install command it copies again the 
stage1_5 file from the /lib/grub folder so you need to rename also this 
one. (Or do not use grub-install but root and setup commands directly.)

adrian15