maxim wexler schreef: >>Error 17 >> >>Installing to /dev/hda2, the gentoo boot part, gave >>same result >> >>Well, at least now it gives me an error num. > > > ...answering himself > > 17 : Cannot mount selected partition > This error is returned if the partition requested > exists, but the filesystem type cannot be recognized > by GRUB. > > This reminds me. When I installed 2005.0(sempron-box) > I tried to mkreiserfs /dev/hda2, the boot partition, > since that gave no problem in 2004.3(k6-box)but it > gave me some sort of error, forget which, so I went > for the default, or anyways, the suggestion in the > manual, ext2, so maybe there is a problem with the fs. > Perhaps if I just re-formatted /boot and re-emerge > grub. Or, at least check the fs. Come to think about > it, the sempron seems to find it easier reading the > floppy than the hd. What d'ya think people? And what > *was* that mysterious error all about anyway? Here's > another: if /dev/hda2 *is* corrupt, how comes it that > it can be read and written to without error? > > Discuss :) > >
Now, this, I *know* I said like ages ago (June 1st, actually).... Holly Bostick schreef: > maxim wexler schreef: > >>>And which OS are you choosing from the menu again, >>>maxim (assuming you >>>get to a menu)? Or does this affect all OSes in your >>>menu? >> >> >>no choice. After grub-install I get the >> >>Grub loading stage1.5 >>Grub loading, please wait... >> >>message(white text,black bg). To get back to >>Macroshaft I boot into a Win98 CD and run fdisk /mbr >> >> > > Ok, now I've got it. The menu doesn't load at all. > > But your previous post as to formatting the /boot partition made me > think of something.... I had problems like that some time ago, back > when I first installed my first Gentoo. > > Basically what had happened was I got weird and unattributable errors > due to my filesystem not being correctly formatted. It was supposed to > be formatted, and files were installed to it and everything, but > filesizes were being reported differently by different tools and > things just didn't work properly. > > What I wound up doing was using qtparted to delete the filesystem and > reformat it. Once the filesystem on the disk was the same as the > filesystem that the disk thought it had, everything worked fine. > > Now, I seem to recall having heard that it is possible to delete and > reformat a filesystem without deleting the partition (or damaging the > files thereon), but I didn't know enough at the time to do that, so I > just deleted the entire partition and recreated it. > > Since this is /boot, it won't be a tragedy to delete the partition, > recreate, format it as ext2 from the start and reinstall grub. But > maybe there's a way that you can just reformat the existing partition > (again) as ext2, so that it "takes". You might still have to reinstall > grub anyway, however at this point that seems like the least of your > > worries :-) . > By diverse means, we arrive at the same end. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
