there is no /boot/grub/stage1

[jetblack]

Just installed to hard drive mint4. But it would not boot. It gave error code 15. I have tried to run from another distro that has grub. By adding mint4 to its grub.conf. Same error code. Looking at the documentation I find that grub can be run in terminal. So I chrooted into the mint / folder. I can run grub in cli but cannot set it up as there is no /boot/grub/stage1 as there is no /boot/grub folder. Is this a bug?

[Husse]

If your install has

no /boot/grub folder.

the install is seriously flawed and you have to reinstall
Before you do that check the md5sum of the iso

[67GTA]

Yeah, that's really bad. Are you sure your HD is good? Installing good info onto bad blocks always goes wrong.

[jetblack]

I'll have a go at reinstalling.

Thanks for the advice

[jetblack]

I reburned the cd. I reinstalled. The same thing happened. There is no way that this disto is usable of a harddrive. Even when putting the correct lines into grub from another distro the thing wont boot. And k3b checked the md5 sum as a matter of course.

[Husse]

There is no way that this disto is usable of a harddrive.

You know what - that's a really stupid comment
There are many thousands installed Mint.
I'd say and know that it's true that there is no way this happens unless you do something wrong. Do you select a boot partition and then not look in it?

[jetblack]

There is no way that this disto is usable of a harddrive.

Its not that stupid. I tried to install a previous version of mint and ran into problems. Also, as I wrote I have made two attempts to install mint4.

Most other distros install ok - including /grub/boot.

As smooth as this distro is as a live distro, it will remain just that for myself. An uninstallable live distro.

[cogDis]

Just installed to hard drive mint4. But it would not boot. It gave error code 15. I have tried to run from another distro that has grub. By adding mint4 to its grub.conf. Same error code. Looking at the documentation I find that grub can be run in terminal. So I chrooted into the mint / folder. I can run grub in cli but cannot set it up as there is no /boot/grub/stage1 as there is no /boot/grub folder. Is this a bug?

Possibly a bug yes, but if it is the one I am thinking of, it would depend on your hardware configuration and where you are attempting to install grub. If you have a dual sata system and are attempting to install grub to any location other than the MBR of the primary drive (using the Advanced Button on the grub installer dialog) then try using /dev/sdxx as the syntax rather than the normal grub protocol of (hdx,x) Substitute xx with the appropriate drive and partition number for your situation.

There is possibly some more info on this subject in the following thread:

viewtopic.php?f=46&t=9665&p=61150#p61150

Good luck, CD