Experiencing the Grub Error 17

[Paul Smith]

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..
> >
> >
> OK - this gets a bit tricky, because when you boot from this drive,
> it is no longer hd2 - it is hd0. So Grub will be looking for its
> files in the wrong place. What I would do is edit your Grub
> configuration file to reflect this.
>
> I would install Grub to the MBR or the disk. This will be (hd2) in
> your current setup. After booting from the drive, you will probably
> get the Grub prompt, because it is looking for its files in the
> wrong place. You should then be able to run something like:
>
> grub> root (hd0,1)
> grub> setup (hd0)
>
> This should install a properly updated Grub to the correct hard
> drive. You can then reboot and you should get the Grub menu, or it
> should start loading Linux, depending on your Grub configuration.

Done that, but, when rebooting, I get again the grub prompt.

Paul