Experiencing the Grub Error 17

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Mon Oct 22 14:01:32 UTC 2007


Paul Smith wrote:
> 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?
> 
> Paul
> 
Are you telling the BIOS to boot from that drive, or are you booting
from another drive?

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?

Mikkel
-- 

  Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

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