Loading GRUB With 'Error 17', Need Help Badly

[Glass Casket]

So I got everything going after several days of trying to dual boot XP and Kubuntu.

I got GRUB going, but it gives me the error 17.

Any ideas how I can fix it?

Thanks.

[budman7]

Using a livecd such as the live Ubuntu cd or Knoppix, could you post the contents of

/boot/grub/menu.lst
/etc/fstab

And the command

sudo fdisk -l


If you post the contents of those 3, we will be able to straighten this out.
The fdisk

grub Error 17
17 : Cannot mount selected partition
This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the
filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB.

[Glass Casket]

Using a livecd such as the live Ubuntu cd or Knoppix, could you post the contents of

/boot/grub/menu.lst
/etc/fstab

And the command

sudo fdisk -l


If you post the contents of those 3, we will be able to straighten this out.
The fdisk

grub Error 17
17 : Cannot mount selected partition
This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the
filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB.

Thanks man, i'll try that right now and post back shortly.

[Glass Casket]

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ /boot/grub/menu.lst
bash: /boot/grub/menu.lst: No such file or directory

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ /etc/fstab
bash: /etc/fstab: Permission denied

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 2551 30400 223705125 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 2551 10199 61440561 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 10200 10326 1020096 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 10327 17975 61440561 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda8 17976 30400 99803781 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 8510 68356543+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 8511 18358 79104060 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 8511 18236 78124063+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 18237 18358 979933+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/hda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 24321 195358401 7 HPFS/NTFS

[Glass Casket]

I really don't get it and getting quite angry with this. After all, i've re-tried at least 20 times by now.

I have my first partition as '/' and primary, which i've tried with the bootflag on & off. All of my other partitions are logical.

Any help would really help.

[budman7]

To display the contents of those files, use "less".

less /boot/grub/menu.lst

or

less /boot/grub/grub.conf

less /etc/fstab

If you get permission denied, try putting "sudo" in front of the command.

[MepisMagic]

you can have Windows Xp dual booting with either Mepis or PCLinuxOS in
40 minutes with no hassle.
"flags?,we don't need no stinking flags " Yes, they are both flagless installs !!

[spencerf]

am I correct that you have 3 harddrives? And that only one contains linux?

if this is correct I think you need to have /dev/sdb1 flagged as bootable and mounted at /boot.

the contents of /etc/fstab are critical for understanding whats going on here.

[esprit]

Hi guys,

I installed fedora core 5 in my second hard disk (hdb1 linux and hdb2 linux LVM) with grub in that disk in order to leave the MBR in the first disk (windows XP, one primary partition, and three logical partitions) primary master untouched. I changed the boot sequence in bios in order to be able to boot from second drive using grub.

At first, I couldn’t load grub (the screen would freeze at start-up), so I just booted from the rescue cd and reinstalled grub. This time, the grub menu appeared but couldn’t boot into any of the two OS. I figured to fix the problem for windows by adding couple of lines in grub.conf file to remap device order. Now I could boot to windows. But I am still working to get Fedora booting, where it posts the same on the screen:

booting ‘Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054-FC5)’
Root (hd1,0)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
kernel /vm.linuz-2.6.15-1.2054_ro root = /dev/volGroup 00 /logVol00 rhgb quiet

Error 17: cannot mount selected partition

Here is how my grub.conf file looks like (after editing, I highlighted with red)

//start grub.conf

default = 0
timeout = 20

splashimage = (hd1, 0) /grub/splash.xpm.gz

hiddenmenu

Title fedora core (2.6.15-1.2054-FC5)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vm.linuz-2.6.15-1.2054_ro root = /dev/volGroup 00 /logVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1-2054_FC5.img

Title windows xp
root (hd1,0)
map (hd1) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
chainloader +1

//end grub.conf

and here is my /etc/fstab,

//start /etc/fstab

/dev/volGroup00/LogVo100 /
label = /boot /boot
devpts /dev/pts
tmpfs /dev/shm
proc /proc
sysfs /sys
/dev/hda6 swap
/dev/volGroup00 /log vol01 swap

ext3 defaults 11
ext3 defaults 12
devpts gid=5, mode=620 00
tmpfs defaults 00
proc defaults 00
sysfs defaults 00
swap defaults 00
swap defaults 00

//end /etc/fstab

and finally the fdisk

//fdisk-l

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4866 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065*512 = 8225280 bytes

Device boot start end blocks Id system
/dev/hda1 * 1 1785 14337181 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3 1786 4866 24748132+ f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1786 3602 14595021 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 3603 3666 514048+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda7 3667 4866 9638968+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4866 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065*512 = 8225280 bytes

Device boot start end blocks Id system
/dev/hdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 14 9729 78043770 8e Linux LVM

//end fdisk -l

Thanks in advance,

esprit

[cyclister]

Hi would be nice if some one would help me out with this problem
Do run small hdd on like 10 gb and only one system on it, on 3 partions.
Distro ubuntu
/
swap
/home

This is what I did get from the last less commands over here.

/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/pts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/auto/floppy auto user,noauto,exec,umask=000 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/auto/cdrom auto user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 auto noauto,users,exec 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda6 none swap defaults 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda7 /mnt/hda7 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
swap swap defaults 0 0


My system do "die" or breakdown like 4 times per year think it have something to with the image or what do you think thats are the problem here?