error: file '/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found

[bruce.checca]

Trying to install PCLOS 2010 on my Acer 7551.  Booting up gives me this:

error: file '/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found
grub rescue>

Where do I go from here?

I booted to the liveCD to get here.

I did an fdisk in terminal and found this:

Device           Boot     start                 end            blocks           ID      system
/dev/sda1                   2048             27650047     13824000       27     Unknown
/dev/sda2        *        27650048     27854847        102400           7     HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3                  27854848    138030479       55087816        7     HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4                  138030480   976768064       419368792      5     Extended
/dev/sda5                 138030543   150946739       6458098+       82   Linux swap/Solaras
/dev/sda6                 150946803   172120409       15086803+      83   Linux
/dev/sda7                 172120473   976768064       402323796       83   Linux

I'm a newbee to Linux, so go slow....

BruceC

[DeBaas]

In current PCLinuxOS 2012.12 installs the map i386-pc does not exist in /boot/grub/.
I'm not planning to install a 2010 version to check this out.
I think you should install PCLinuxOS 2012.12 to sda6 mountpoint /
Your /home mountpoint connected to sda7 and swap on sda5.

PCLinuxOS downloads on:
http://pclosusers.com/isos/
or the much faster torrent downloads on:
http://www.terasaur.org/search?query=pclinuxos