GRUB Error 17

zero-x · 04-09-2009, 02:19 PM

"GRUB Loading stage 1.5. GRUB loading, please wait... Error 17"

That is the message I'm getting right after installing Linux Mint 6 (Ubuntu 8.10) in dual boot with Windows XP. I already tried setting the IDE type from AUTO to USER as suggested in some other post but still get the same message. (Any help is greatly appreciated).

Motherboard: ASUS CUV4X-DLS
BIOS: Award Medallion v6

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I also tried re-installing GRUB from the live-cd yet I still have the same problem. And running sudo sfdisk -l gives me the following output:

Disk /dev/sda: 1020 cylinders, 63 heads, 62 sectors/track
Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
for C/H/S=*/61/60 (instead of 1020/63/62).
For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
Units = cylinders of 1873920 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 0+ 1089- 1090- 1993604+ 6 FAT16
start: (c,h,s) expected (0,4,8) found (0,3,59)
end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,60,60) found (988,60,60)
/dev/sda2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty

Disk /dev/sdb: 24321 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 0+ 21708 21709- 174377511 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 21709 22455 747 6000277+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 22456 22828 373 2996122+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb4 22829 24320 1492 11984490 83 Linux

Libu · 04-09-2009, 10:50 PM

Please post more information. I take it that you have two disks and that you have some windows installed on 1 disk and on the second disk you have windows + Linux, with Linux boot on sdb2 ?

Also post your grub configuration. (/etc/grub.conf or /boot/grub/grub.conf)

This link describes the error:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/man...1_002e5-errors

I'm assuming its some issue with your conf file.