Error 17 loading stage 1.5 form grub

[Guillaume Coté]

Hi,

I have a old PC that was working fine with lilo before I reinstall my
linux from scratch (with a Debian Woody 3.0 r0).  I installed grub with
dselect.

First, I try to boot with a grub disk (that I build with stage one and
two following the instruction in the info pages).  I can boot my window
partition fine, I can also find file on it, but when I type 

root (hd0,1)

I got a error 17.  (which I think is normal, I stage 1.5 is not present
and it's a ext2fs partition).  I boot in linux with the debian rescue
disk, copy the required file in /boot/gnut/ (I attach the listing of the
directory in ll.txt), I wrote a little menu.lst (also atteched) and I
run grub.  I issue the following command :

root (hd0,1)
setup (hd0)

when I reboot, I see

Grub Loading stage 1.5

Grub Loading, please wait...
Error 17.

The system then hang.

I wonder if the system isn't trying to read the stage 1.5 for ext2fs on
a ext2fs filesystem.  In that case, is there a way to make the stage 1.5
available before it try to acces it.

Is there anything I can do to check that?

Thanks for your help


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Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 787 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       254   1024096+   6  FAT16
/dev/hda2   *       255       457    818496   83  Linux
/dev/hda3           772       787     64512   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda4           458       771   1266048    5  Extended
/dev/hda5           458       583    508000+   6  FAT16
/dev/hda6           584       771    757984+   b  Win95 FAT32

Partition table entries are not in disk order

total 116
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         7904 Nov 10 23:00 e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          122 Nov 10 23:07 menu.lst
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          512 Nov 10 23:00 stage1
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        95712 Nov 10 23:00 stage2

default 0
timeout 3

title Windows 95
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

title linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20


grub (GNU GRUB 0.91)

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