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Fence36
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 Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 5:14 am Post subject: grub error 17 |
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Okay just installed Gentoo 1.4rc2, used grub for bootloader.
This is the error I get.
| Code: | Grub 1.5 Loading.....
error 17 |
And everything stops. I've searched the forum but none of the grub posts have helped.
My grub.conf looks like:
| Code: | default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 hdb=ide-scsi hbc=ide-scsi |
My parition table:
/dev/hda1 boot
/dev/hda2 swap
/dev/hda3 root |
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cyfred
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| Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 5:53 am Post subject: |
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| Comment out the splash image line. The syntax looks dodgy and that file has been reported to cause some problems, so try skipping that step (you will have to boot with the CD again, and manually mount the boot partition to edit the file. |
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cyfred
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| Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 5:55 am Post subject: |
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| Futher (as the idea hits me) if that works, try removing the (hd0,0) part from the line and just have /boot/grub/.... as im not sure if grub will actually follow the symlink that has been put inside the folder -- and its a little bit of a waste if you ask me. |
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scocou
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| Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 6:40 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 hdb=ide-scsi hbc=ide-scsi |
Just on the off chance you copied this directly from your grub.conf, would 'hbc=ide-scsi' as opposed to 'hdc=ide-scsi' cause an error 17? Probably a typo in your forum post, but worth a shot since you quoted it as code  |
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cyfred
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| Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 8:08 am Post subject: |
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After coming back over this thread I am reminded of something similar somewhere else in the forums and we narrowed that down to either being a syntax error before the "title Gentoo" line, or a problem with reading the grub stages from the harddisk.
Can you boot from a grub floppy disk?
If so then you are having the stage read problems, the easiest solution being to switch to using LILO .... |
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Fence36
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| Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 10:43 pm Post subject: Grub and Reiser FS |
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| After searching the forums I found something about grub having trouble reading the reiser filesystem. I switched my /boot from being reiser to ext3, which has better stability anyway and everything worked fine. Thank You for your support. |
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