Re: Experiencing the Grub Error 17

On 10/22/07, Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am experiencing the Grub Error 17. I am trying to boot in /dev/sdc3,
and I am running F7. The result of 'fdisk -l' (obtained after having
booted in Knoppix) is below. Any ideas? If further information is
needed, please ask me for it.

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# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500106780160 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 30395 244147806 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 30396 40594 81923467+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160040803840 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 10000 80324968+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 10001 19457 75963352+ 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdc: 120.0 GB, 120033041920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 3187 25597952 6 FAT16
/dev/sdc2 3188 3200 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdc3 3201 14593 91514272+ 8e Linux LVM

I am trying the following, but getting a failure:

grub> root (hd2,1)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

grub>

grub> setup (hd2,1)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd2,1)"... failed (this is not fatal)
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd2,1)"... failed (this is not fatal)
Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd2,1) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu
.lst "... succeeded
Done.

grub>
grub> setup (hd2,2)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd2,2)"... failed (this is not fatal)
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd2,1)"... failed (this is not fatal)
Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd2,2) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu
.lst "... succeeded
Done.

grub>

Paul

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