Experiencing the Grub Error 17

[Tim]

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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