Experiencing the Grub Error 17

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 14:11:53 UTC 2007


On 10/22/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
> >> Paul,
> >>  What exactly are you trying to do? Because what you are doing does
> >> not make much sense. You are installing Grub stage 1 in the boot
> >> record of the second and third partition of the third hard drive.
> >
> > Thanks, Mikkel. I am so frustrated with this that I may be doing
> > things without sense. But let me try to be clearer:
> >
> > I am trying to boot in the F7 partition, which is in /dev/sdc2 and
> > /dev/sdc3 (it is lvm). What precisely should I do in order to be
> > successful with booting in it?
> >
> Are you telling the BIOS to boot from that drive, or are you booting
> from another drive?

Yes, Mikkel, the disk from which I want to boot has the highest
priority in BIOS..

> If you are booting from another drive, do you have another boot
> loader on that drive, or are you trying to install Grub so that is
> the boot loader, and gives you a menu of OS's to start?

I have no boot loader in the other drives. I am trying Grub as the
single boot loader.

Paul




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