Grub error 17Forum: USB booting Topic: Grub error 17 started by: Mr Green Posted by Mr Green on Dec. 16 2005,14:39
Hi,Does anyone get grub error 17 when booting via usb (pendrive) under Qemu grub & DSL boots fine ... Searching web suggests bios problems or worng partition Once grub was loaded to pendrive device.map shows sda as (hd2) ... I added to menu.lst (hd0.0) wondering if thats the problem ? Anyone had any luck using lilo on a pendrive .... Or does syslinux support usb booting now ? TIA Mr Green Posted by Mr Green on Dec. 29 2005,12:21
Ok so I get grub prompt ,,, now ...error 17 relates to partition (file system!) not found grub>root I'm going to try to have boot on separate partition (on stick) see if that works ... Posted by clivesay on Dec. 29 2005,12:26
It's showing up as hda2? If so, the drive should look like (hd0,1)Chris Posted by Mr Green on Dec. 29 2005,12:45
Hi,Well using root & find (menu.lst) nothing is found sooo I guess my system is not picking up usb stick? May try a different setting in BIOS see what happens . was set as hd2 ... in device.map emmm Would lilo be easier to set up? Posted by clivesay on Dec. 29 2005,13:23
ah, trying to boot your usb stick....Are you using a newer grub? I was thinking the one with DSL did not have that capability. Posted by Mr Green on Dec. 29 2005,13:27
grub 0.97-2 ....qemu works fine but booting just get grub prompt .... then loads up my main system as normal Posted by wkearney99 on Mar. 01 2006,18:33
I was getting an error 17 during boot for an IDE drive setup as /dev/hda1. The problem was the partition type wasn't set properly. For some reason it thought the partition type was FAT16 instead of Linux. Fixing that using cfdisk solved the boot error.
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