Experiencing the Grub Error 17

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Oct 23 10:39:31 UTC 2007


Tim:
>> GRUB actually uses a configuration file called menu.lst, the
>> grub.conf file that we're used to playing with is a symlink to it. 
>> Perhaps you don't have the link?

Paul Smith:
> Thanks, Tim. In my case,
> 
> #  ll /boot/grub/
> total 208
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     60 2007-10-22 22:26 device.map
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     60 2007-10-22 22:26 device.map.backup
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7616 2007-10-23 01:16 e2fs_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7456 2007-10-23 01:16 fat_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6720 2007-10-23 01:16 ffs_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6720 2007-10-23 01:16 iso9660_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8192 2007-10-23 01:16 jfs_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6880 2007-10-23 01:16 minix_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   9248 2007-10-23 01:16 reiserfs_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    512 2007-10-23 01:16 stage1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104924 2007-10-23 01:16 stage2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7040 2007-10-23 01:16 ufs2_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6272 2007-10-23 01:16 vstafs_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8864 2007-10-23 01:16 xfs_stage1_5
> #
> 
> There is *no* menu.lst. However, menu.lst is in
> /dev/sda2/boot/grub/grub.conf. My /etc/fstab is:
> 
> # more /etc/fstab
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

I didn't know you could have swap on a volume group. And, further back
in the thread, you had a kernel line that indicated that same volume
group was your system root (/):

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.7-85.fc7 ro root=/dev/VolGroup/LogVol01

> /dev/sdc1 /mnt/montaria ext3 defaults 0 0
> # dir -l  /etc/grub.conf
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2007-10-21 10:56 /etc/grub.conf -> ../boot/grub/grub.conf
>
> Any ideas? 

What do you see for "less /etc/grub.conf"?  I can't see from that list
output whether the link points to a file, or points to a non-existent
file.

I'm beginning to wonder if you've got two boot partitions, and you're
working on one that's mounted, but different than the one the system is
booting from.

Put a menu.lst file into your /boot, make a symlink to it called
grub.conf.

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