Experiencing the Grub Error 17

[Michael Schwendt]

On 23/10/2007, Tim wrote:
>
> But just looking through this
> thread, I think you've tangled yourself in a knot.

Well, too many rushed changes to the system.

In general, partition labels are _good_, but only as long as you don't
mix them with partition device names in ambiguous ways. If the /boot
partition is labelled "/boot", then *always* mount the partition via
this label. Only use the underlying partition device name (e.g.
/dev/sda2) when you are sure it is exactly the same partition as the
one with the label "/boot". Else you increase the risk that you work
on different partitions.