A guess, but is there a grub.conf file anywhere in the /boot directory of the 
install? Maybe it's not reading menu.lst.



On Monday 23 May 2005 21:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello Shawn and all,
>
> I separately mounted  hda1, hda2, hda3, hdb1, hab2, hdb3, hdb4, hdc1, hdc2
> and got the following results:
>
> Each of the mounted partitions were the correct size, and hda3 would not
> mount because it looked like swap, which it was. Ditto with hdb4 and hdc2.
>
> I then checked the menu.lst file and regular kernel boot was from hd0,1
> which is what it should have been, and that the windows which was fat32 was
> on hd1,0 which corresponds to hdb1 which is what it should have been.
>
> So it seems that grub should point to the correct hard drives in the
> menu.lst file.
>
> I did all that by doing separately commands like mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1.
>
> I umounted every file system after getting the information I wanted.
>
> Then I clicked on hda2 which automounted hda2 and navigated with konqueror
> to menu.lst and then viewed menu.lst to see that grub was indeed pointing
> to the correct hard drives.
>
>
> I hope this narrows down the possiblities causing grub to fail and give an
> error 17 message.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael Walters
>
>
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