Grub graphics file missing - press a key to continue...

[Forestarius]

I just installed Celena on my old Dell 4100.

I partitioned the HD into /boot, /var, /usr, etc., in case that makes any difference for this problem.

On bootup it stalls with the following message:

"Grub Loading Stage 1.5.

GRUB loading, please wait...
graphics file "/etc/grub/message.mint" missing, press a key to continue..."

I can press the space key and then it boots fine, but would like to fix the error if possible.

[merlwiz79]

This link should help you fix it.
http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5024

in menu.lst change /etc/grub/message.mint to /grub/message.mint

[Forestarius]

Thanks! It works now!

In my case I copied the message.mint file from /etc/grub to /boot/grub and edited down the menu.lst file there to read gfxmenu=/grub/message.mint and it worked.

Curiously when I first tried editing it to gfxmenu=/boot/grub/message.mint it did not work. The little details mean a lot.