Experiencing the Grub Error 17

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 12:22:15 UTC 2007


On 10/22/07, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> 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.
>
> ----------------------------------
>
> # 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




More information about the fedora-list mailing list