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Old 07-20-2005, 04:46 PM   #1
centrepid
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GRUB Error 17 after reinstall of XP (FC 2)


Hi,

I got a new hard drive and installed it so my system had two hard-drives:
The old one which was dual-boot: FC 2 / XP HOME, and the new one
on which I installed XP PRO.

Of course I should have realized that this would ruin grub, which it did so I now only can boot the two windows systems. I used the FC 2 cd 1 in rescue mode, and typed:
chroot /mnt/sysimage
sbin/grub-installer /dev/hda

When I restarted I just got a blinking cursor. After a while I realized that this was actually grub waiting for me to choose operating system.
When I chose FC2 i got the following error message:

root hd0,2
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.771_FC2 ro root=Label=/ rhgb quiet

Error 17: cannot mount selected partition

I later used:
chroot /mnt/sysimage
sbin/grub-installer /dev/hda --recheck

Which didn't solve the problem (although I think it
properly identified the new harddrive)

When i type (in resuce mode):
fdisk -l /dev/hda
I get:
Enhed boot start end BlocksId System
/dev/hda1 * 1 11104 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 11105 12124
 
Old 07-20-2005, 04:59 PM   #2
centrepid
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(end of previous message, which somehow didn't get through

contents of fdisk -l /dev/hda
Enhed Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 11104 89192848+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 11105 12124 8193150 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 12525 12315 1534207+ 82 Linux Swap
/dev/hda4 12370 24321 96004440 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 12370 23921 92791408+ 7 NPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 23922 24321 3212956+ b W95 FAT32

And the contents of grub.conf:

(comment about me NOT having a /boot partion)

default=2
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.771_FC2)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.771_FC2 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.771_FC2.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358_FC2.img
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

Thx
 
  


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