On 01/12/2011 01:54 PM, Ken Bass wrote: > On 01/12/2011 01:42 PM, Bruno Ribeiro da Silva wrote: >> Did you set you /dev/vda1 as bootable? > I actually had forgotten about that. But after doing so, the error > message remains the same. > > According the grub documentation, stage 1.5 error 2 means: > "2 : Bad file or directory type > This error is returned if a file requested is not a regular file, > but something like a symbolic link, directory, or FIFO." More info...After comparing my working system with the non-working one. I notice the non-working ext3 filesystem has an inode size of 256. The working system 128. Could this be the issue with grub? I see some ramblings on the Internet about grub and inode size issues.