Sata, raid0, grub and "Error 17"

anderlin · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 1:52 am Post subject: Sata, raid0, grub and "Error 17"

I have just installed XP on my amd64-system, with two harddisks in sata-raid0. Then I bootet the Gentoo 2004.0 liveCD, and installed Gentoo. Everything went fine, until I restarted. Then Grub gave me error 17. My raid controller is Promise PDC203xx.

I have searched for ways to do this, but have not found any yet. Some mentioned installing Grub on a floppy, but for some reason, my floppy drive won't work yet.

Tanks for any comments.
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ub818 · n00b Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 66

I got that same error - i had setup grub wrong, so it wrote the wrong info into the mbr.

to fix this from the liveCD run grub - then do this..
root(hdX,X)
setup(hdX) <-- besure to not do (hdX,X) that will give you error 17
quit

Where ever X is replace it of what the partition number it is.

endpoint · n00b Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 11

fixture · n00b Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 13

well, if I were you, I'd abandon the grub-static idea altogether,
I had a error 18 problem, so I just compiled a 32-bit gentoo on a separate partition from stg3 and compiled lilo on the 32-bit to load my 64-bit kernel. It works great, this is provided that you have the bandwidth....

fixture

GoingDown

I also had same problem. Live-cd regognized my sata drive, and install went fine. After reboot, my root partition was not found...

During install, my SATA hard disk was found as /dev/hde (/dev/hda was my old hard disk).
I installed gentoo to /dev/hde8, boot partition /dev/hde2.

I configured kernel to use native SATA drivers (under scsi)

In grub setup, I did "root (hd1,1)", "setup(hd1)". In grub config, my kernel line has root=/dev/hde8. I also configured /dev/hde2 as boot and /dev/hde8 as root in my fstab.

In next reboot, I got error 17. I did setup grub again, this time root (hd0,1), setup (hd0). This worked for error 17.

In next reboot, after selecting Linux from grub menu, I got kernel panic after a while - "cannot open root device /dev/hde8..."

After some tweaking, I found out reason for this : because I am using native SATA driver, I must use /dev/sdX as a SATA drive device instead of /dev/hdX - so, I changed my /kernel line in grub.conf to point to /dev/sda8 instead of /dev/hde8, and also configured fstab accordingly.

After that, my system booted succesfully

endpoint · n00b Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 11

BlinkEye · Last edited by BlinkEye on Sun Mar 07, 2004 11:22 am; edited 1 time in total

brad_mssw · n00b Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Posts: 29 Location: Alachua, FL

please read http://amd64.gentoo.org
and note that the raid0 that you may have created using your
on-board sata controller is NOT going to be compatible in the
way you may think it is. It could infact totally mess up your
Windows and Linux partitions when dual-booting.

BlinkEye · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 10:18 am Post subject:

well. i'm not quite sure who your are talking to. but for my case i have read http://amd64.gentoo.org and i don't know, why it shouldn't be possible to make a raid5 with my two onboard controllers - because with the live cd (2004) the drives are recognized and i could "makeraid" them without any problem. i use software-raid and not hardware raid. i think this is simply a bootloader issue. i wouldn't mind about a workaround, because i set this 64bit machine up to be my server and wouldn't need to boot many times. but the problem might be exactly the 64bit option, i.e. grub-static.

BlinkEye · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 11:22 am Post subject:

btw: just set it up without RAID and i get the same error. any hint?

GoingDown

BlinkEye · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 3:23 pm Post subject:

ok. got it working with the sdX mapping: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=930991#930991