Grub: Cannot read grub.conf file

[tylerd75]

I have a fileserver running Gentoo x64 (I've also tried x86, with the same grub error).

When I boot, grub is loaded normally, but when I choose the kernel and hit enter, the screen turns black and I get this error:
Grub Error 15: File Not Found

My grub.conf looks like this:

[s2ndsight]

I created a grub boot floppy according to the instructions I've found here. Understand that the setup (fd0) command invokes the grub-install command to look for menu.1st as the config file instead of grub.conf, and done practically everything else I can think of to solve this problem, and I'm stumped. When setup (fd0) completes, it tells me that stage 1 and stage 2 were written properly and the config file is expected to be found in /boot/grub/menu.1st, and that's exactly where it is.

When I boot from the floppy, instead of seeing the grub splash and the boot option, I get dumped back to the grub prompt after stage 2 has loaded. Somehow, the menu.1st file is not being found by grub.

At the grub prompt, if I enter "configfile /boot/grub/menu.1st", everything boots up perfectly.

Any suggestions?

[derk]

looks like you have a typo .. should be: menu.lst ( a lower case L not a number 1) is it correct on your disk?

[flangemonkey]

not entirely on topic, but i had the same symptoms, with a different cause;

my grub/menu.lst had this:

#title Gentoo 3.0.6
root (hd0,7)
kernel (hd0,5)/gentoo-3.0.6 ro vga=791 root=/dev/sdc8

the comment over "title" was causing grub to bomb out to a command line, remove the comment:

title Gentoo 3.0.6
root (hd0,7)
kernel (hd0,5)/gentoo-3.0.6 ro vga=791 root=/dev/sdc8

all worked fine;

posting this here in the hope it'll help someone else one day