<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2604" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005>System is AMD-Athlon 64 based. hda is 120GB and contains Windows XP on partition hda1. hdb is 60GB and contain 64-bit version of Fedora Core 3. /boot is on hdb1 (ext3) followed by a Logical Volume containing / (reiserfs) and the swap partition. This was the default partitioning performed by Fedora. Grub was installed to the MBR.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005>Now, when I boot, I get error 17 in Grub stage 1.5. From the Grub manual this is :</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT><SPAN class=296465310-12022005> <DT><FONT face=Arial size=2>17 : Cannot mount selected partition </FONT> <DD><FONT face=Arial size=2>This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB.</FONT></DD></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a floppy which boots to a Grub shell. Now if I type in the following I can boot Fedora Core 3:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2>root (hd1,0)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2>kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2>initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2>boot</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2>and away Fedora goes. No problem.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also, I can boot Windows XP from the Grub shell by the following:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2>rootnoverify (hd0,0)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2>makeactive</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2>chainloader +1</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2>boot</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2>A few seconds later, I have Windows XP up and running.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2>The contents of my grub.conf are as follows:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2># grub.conf generated by anaconda</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2>#</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2># Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making chnages to this file</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2># NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that you</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2># all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2># root (hd1,0)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2># <SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2> kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2># initrd /initrd-version.img</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2>#boot=/dev/hda</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2>default=0</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2>timeout=5</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2>splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2>hiddenmenu</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2>title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2> root (hd1,0)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2> initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><SPAN class=296465310-12022005>title Windows XP Professional SP2</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><SPAN class=296465310-12022005> rootnoverify (hd0,0)</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><SPAN class=296465310-12022005> chainloader +1</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><SPAN class=296465310-12022005></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><SPAN class=296465310-12022005>As far as I can see, these commands are the same as I typed into the Grub shell, with the exception that</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><SPAN class=296465310-12022005>I also put a 'makeactive' command in when booting Windows from the Grub shell. However, this does not make any </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><SPAN class=296465310-12022005>difference, so </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><SPAN class=296465310-12022005>what is going on?</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><SPAN class=296465310-12022005></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><SPAN class=296465310-12022005>I have read that /boot should be on the first hard disk. Is this correct? Why then can I boot from the floppy?</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><SPAN class=296465310-12022005>I have also read that people have had problems with 64-bit.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><SPAN class=296465310-12022005></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><SPAN class=296465310-12022005>Hopefully some of you clever people can help here.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><SPAN class=296465310-12022005></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><SPAN class=296465310-12022005>Thanks</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><SPAN class=296465310-12022005></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=296465310-12022005><SPAN class=296465310-12022005>Steve Black</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>