Nick W wrote: >A guess, but is there a grub.conf file anywhere in the /boot directory of the >install? Maybe it's not reading menu.lst. > > My brother Mel came over and ran the installation program. He did not know what I did wrong, but he made all the correct choices in the installation, and I now have libranet 3.0 working and my printer is working again.
What I did wrong in my installation will forever be a mystery, but Mel was able to get it going. I am now composing this reply from Thunderbird mail client in libranet 3.0. Thanks for all the help. Michael > > >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 >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>clug-talk mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >>Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >>**Please remove these lines when replying >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >clug-talk mailing list >[email protected] >http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >**Please remove these lines when replying > > > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying

