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Konsti
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 Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:57 am Post subject: Guru is too stupid for lilo or grub, Error 17 |
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Well. On a friend's computer I added a new hard disk.
I wanted to move the linux completely onto this second new one, so her friend can add more easy a windows
installation without breaking anything.
So the old / was on /dev/hda1, now it is on /dev/hdb3.
I booted the gentoo install cd an chrooted into /dev/hdb3, changed in /etc/lilo.conf
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I run lilo and it was happy. On booting it spits out L 99 99 99 99 and stops.
So I tried grub. I did something like:
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root (hd1,2)
kernel (hd1,2)/boot/vmlinunz-2.6.11 root=/dev/hdb3
setup (hd0)
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grub than checkes (successfully) the stages 1 2 and e2fs-stage-2_5
and seems to be happy.
But before the grub menu appears it says Error 17.
Hey, the boot scenarion is rather simple, bootloader into MBR first disk, root is a stock ext3 /dev/hdb3. I really don't get it 
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PS.: are there any bootcd images out there, which allow me to pass root=/dev/hdb3 to the kernel to boot natively the installation?
I tried gentoo and debian, but they are so highly modulated so they don't contain an ide driver anymore in kernel. |
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TheRAt
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:11 am Post subject: Re: Guru is too stupid for lilo or grub, Error 17 |
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According to Grub Error Collection [Part 4] [POST GRUB QUESTIONS HERE!], error 17 is caused by:
| idoneus wrote: | [*]Grub error 17
| info grub wrote: | 17 : Cannot mount selected partition
This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB.
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Be sure to check your root(x,y) settings in your grub.conf. |
You do not say what your /boot partition is...
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root (hd1,2)
kernel (hd1,2)/boot/vmlinunz-2.6.11 root=/dev/hdb3
setup (hd0)
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What you have above says that the /boot partition is /dev/hdb3, same as the / partition.. Is this correct?
specifies the /boot partition..
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You might like to take a look at the Configuring the Bootloader section of the Gentoo Handbook.
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Konsti
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:42 am Post subject: |
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Yes, /boot is a subdirectory in / on /dev/hdb3.
Can the error be caused due to the fact that /dev/hdb3 is behind the 138GB border?
/dev/hdb1 is 120G fat32 and /dev/hdb2 is 20GB fat32.
Can't lilo or grub handle this scenario? |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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L 99 99 99 99
I have encountered this before. This means you have an old broken Lilo installation on MBR. I used dd to overwrite MBR and got rid of it. |
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Konsti
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Jaglover wrote: | | This means you have an old broken Lilo installation on MBR. |
While experimenting now, I changed the MBR from grub to lilo and vice versa.
So "L 99 99..." from lilo or "Error 17" from grub. So I suppose the mbr gets written from each other new.
How do I erase the MBR anyway? The first xxx Bytes IIRC, but not 512 (partition Table)? |
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Jaglover
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Well... I do not have theoretic knowledge to explain it. It happened to me long time ago. I pulled an IDE disk with Linux installation from one box and installed it into another. And no matter how I fought with various disk utilities every time I started that box L 99 99 ... thing came up. In my case there was no partition table to retain. So I issued dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=1 bs=512 and that made the disk usable. |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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You did not forget to change your fstab accordingly, did you ?
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Konsti
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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It is worth a try. I could recreate the partition table after. only hdb4 has to be recovered, but noting and reusing the cylinder data should not harm the phsikal volume in hdb4.
I think about this because I found no hint, that /boot in /
has to be before a special boundary even on modern machines or harddisks anymore...
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Konsti
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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| lesourbe wrote: | | You did not forget to change your fstab accordingly, did you ? |
What should that be for? Is it used by lilo or grub installing the mbr? They have own config files for that... |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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| You wrote you added new HDD. How new it was anyway? Perhaps it has something odd in its MBR? |
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Konsti
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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The old was and is still the first hda. The new is hdb now.
fat32 data and linux. so MBR is still on hda... |
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| Konsti wrote: | | lesourbe wrote: | | You did not forget to change your fstab accordingly, did you ? |
What should that be for? Is it used by lilo or grub installing the mbr? They have own config files for that... |
well I misread your post, I thought the error came after lilo or grub ...
sorry 
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dj_farid
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| Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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What does fdisk say about your both disks?
Which partition is active? Which partitions are extended and which are primary? |
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Tamsco
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| Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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I'm confused, what's on hdb1 and hdb2?
Please post you grub.conf and /etc/fstab.
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Konsti
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:47 am Post subject: |
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The computer is now away at my friend's home. I have no hands on it anymore.
hdb1 and hdb2 were fat32 partitions and hdb3 contained the /
I switched now hdb3 and hdb1 so the 1GB / ist first partition and grub and lilo are happy now.
All Partitions are primary. |
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