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Old 10-19-2007, 04:37 PM   #1
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Gibbon "Error 17"


Hi All,

I've been running XP on one hard drive and Ubuntu on another hard drive for a couple of years. Each time a new dist. of Ubuntu comes out, I install it fresh to the hard drive, replacing the previous version. Never a problem Grub sees both OSs and I can mount and boot- no problem.

After doing the same thing with Gibbon last night, I get: error 17 cannot mount selected partition when selecting Gibbon via grub. When I try XP, I get: Error 22 No Such Partition

I installed Gibbon a second time, same problem. Then installed feisty and I got the same error messages.

Any idea what's happening?

Many Thanks,

ab
 
Old 10-19-2007, 06:32 PM   #2
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Ok,

found some threads online dealing with the error but nothing working yet... I'll post my fix if I discover one.

-ab
 
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Are the drives one IDE and one SATA ???.
I had a problem with the beta, and opened a bug - the devs weren't very receptive.

Also had a problem with the laptop (release) upgrade I just did - one disk, but the menu.lst was built wrong. Easy enough to fix at the grub menu to allow a boot, and fix once booted.
You need to know what it should be, and what the menu is using. Maybe use a liveCD to have a look at the menu.lst
 
Old 10-20-2007, 09:13 AM   #4
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I also found the same solutions as above. There is confusion with IDE and SATA ie hd(x,y) and hdax , sdax. Check using ´Partition editor´ to see your drives and then translate for Grub. a temporary edit of Grub is easy, once it is running I think you just key ´e´ to edit and replace the drive numbers. Once you´ve got it right do a separate menu.lst edit. (My impression is that IDE is counted before the SATA, on my system)
 
Old 10-20-2007, 09:00 PM   #5
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Thanks Guys,

Since this was a new install and I had my data backed up, I inserted the xp cd, booted into rescue mode, ran the fixmbr and fixboot commands and then reinstalled gibbon. This time I was able to multi-boot with no trouble.

Next time I'll go through linux instead.

Thanks Much,

ab
 
  


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