Experiencing the Grub Error 17
Paul Smith
phhs80 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 16:46:27 UTC 2007
On 10/22/07, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> map (hd0) (hd2)
> map (hd2) (hd0)
>
> in the grub.conf boot entry would achieve that. However, before that
> I would really suggest giving the "find /grub/grub.conf" command a
> try, to see on which mountable partition it finds the file.
We are getting close to it! Mikkel is right. Inside the grub prompt, I
run, as suggested, the command 'find /grub/grub.conf' and I get
(h0,1). Then I run
configfile /grub/grub.conf
and I get the correct dialog panel to choose the kernel to boot, and
it goes though until a kernel panic emerges. My grub.conf file is now:
# more /mnt/sdc2/grub/grub.conf
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.fc7)
root (hd2,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 ro root=/dev/sdc2 rhgb
initrd /initrd-2.6.22.9-91.fc7.img
title Fedora (2.6.22.7-85.fc7)
root (hd2,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.7-85.fc7 ro root=/dev/sdc2 rhgb
initrd /initrd-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.img
where should I insert
map (hd0) (hd2)
map (hd2) (hd0)
and what should I do to avoid the kernel panic? I suspect that
something is wrong with 'root=/dev/sdc2'.
Paul
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