Debian Sarge boot disk

r3dhatter · 02-16-2005, 09:11 PM

Hi, I need a debian sarge kernel 2.6.7 because I get grub error 17 when I boot.

I get this because I changed the motherboard/vid card/memory.

If anyone knows another fix, please let me know.

Thanks

TigerOC · 02-17-2005, 11:33 AM

Error 17 means that grub cannot find the selected partition. The actual change of hardware should not affect the system, unlike some other os' which I will not mention. Are you sure you attached the hard drive to the same ide when you assembled the system? If you didn't then it would explain the problem since the drive id numbers will change. You can use the install cd to boot from or use something like Knoppix to check your partitions.

r3dhatter · 02-17-2005, 04:49 PM

The same ide means same cable, flip the cable sides, or primary/secondary?

Thanks

r3dhatter · 02-17-2005, 10:34 PM

I had to plug in my other drive, apparently, my linux partition was on secondary.

Do you think I can change it to master and it will still boot?

It works now, thanks.

r3dhatter · 02-18-2005, 05:50 PM

How do I change the my hd from slave to master and have grub boot?

TigerOC · 02-19-2005, 02:03 AM

Grub has a set of instructions to look for boot files at a certain location which is dependent on the reporting process of the motherboard. A drive attached to the primary ide will be interpreted as hd(0,X) and the secondary hd(1,X) on the secondary ide where X is the partition number starting at 0. If the drives are not in the same location then everything changes.