Experiencing the Grub Error 17

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Paul Smith wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> 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
> 
Paul,
 What exactly are you trying to do? Because what you are doing does
not make much sense. You are installing Grub stage 1 in the boot
record of the second and third partition of the third hard drive.

Mikkel
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