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hex

Member

Registered: 2008-03-27

Posts: 6

Grub error 17

Hi

Let me first say that I do realize that there are a bunch of topics on this subject, and I did search. However, I still can't seem to get it working. I have the following setup:

One 500GB SATA harddrive. On it, there are 4 primary partitions, sda1, 2, 3, 4.

sda1 = Windows Vista (50GB).
sda2 = Linux Ext3 root (45GB).
sda3 = NTFS (some random large size leftover from when the others were created).
sda4 = Linux Swap (5ish GB).

I installed grub. I selected sda when asked. Grub loads, so I assume it's been installed to MBR as it should be. My menu.lst looks like this:

# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst

# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS 
#
#  Linux           Grub
# -------------------------
#  /dev/fd0        (fd0)
#  /dev/hda        (hd0)
#  /dev/hdb2       (hd1,1)
#  /dev/hda3       (hd0,2)
#

#  FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
#     +-------------------------------------------------+
#          | 640x480    800x600    1024x768   1280x1024
#      ----+--------------------------------------------
#      256 | 0x301=769  0x303=771  0x305=773   0x307=775
#      32K | 0x310=784  0x313=787  0x316=790   0x319=793
#      64K | 0x311=785  0x314=788  0x317=791   0x31A=794
#      16M | 0x312=786  0x315=789  0x318=792   0x31B=795
#     +-------------------------------------------------+

# general configuration:
timeout   5
default   0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue

# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
#
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
#
#-*

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda2 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda2 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img

# (1) Windows
#title Windows
#rootnoverify (hd0,0)
#makeactive
#chainloader +1

Are you able to spot any obvious errors in the above file, that I am overlooking? If not, what else could be wrong? Any help would be appreciated.

tigrmesh

IRC Op

From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: Grub error 17

Hi.
Your menu.lst looks ok to me.  Chroot into your arch install as described here http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Panics, and have a look at your /etc/fstab.  Are the partitions set up as you intended?  Do the first parts of the sda2 and 4 lines look like this:
/dev/sda2  /        ext3
/dev/sda4  swap  swap
?

Here's a wiki article on fstab:  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab.

hex

Member

Registered: 2008-03-27

Posts: 6

Re: Grub error 17

My fstab was as it should be, as were the partitions. Still haven't figured out what could be wrong, but I did solve the problem by simply using LILO instead. Although I've already managed to forget to run lilo after updating config file at least twice

Thanks for your help