Experiencing the Grub Error 17
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Oct 23 02:36:35 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 01:45 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> However, I still get the grub prompt when booting. This is a bit
> annoying, as, in order to have it completing the boot, I have to run
> the command
>
> configfile (hd0)/grub/grub.conf.
I've never encountered that. What's in your /boot/grub?
[tim at bigblack ~]$ ll /boot/grub/
total 226
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63 2007-06-22 16:12 device.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7616 2007-06-22 16:12 e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7456 2007-06-22 16:12 fat_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6720 2007-06-22 16:12 ffs_stage1_5
-rw------- 1 root root 1969 2007-10-19 12:45 grub.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6720 2007-06-22 16:12 iso9660_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 2007-06-22 16:12 jfs_stage1_5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2007-06-22 16:12 menu.lst -> ./grub.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6880 2007-06-22 16:12 minix_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9248 2007-06-22 16:12 reiserfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22647 2007-04-23 13:59 splash.xpm.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 2007-06-22 16:12 stage1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104924 2007-08-05 14:46 stage2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7040 2007-06-22 16:12 ufs2_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6272 2007-06-22 16:12 vstafs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8864 2007-06-22 16:12 xfs_stage1_5
GRUB actually uses a configuration file called menu.lst, the grub.conf
file that we're used to playing with is a symlink to it. Perhaps you
don't have the link?
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[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.22.9-91.fc7 i686 i386
Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7.
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