[c] GRUB´s Error 17 on Stage 1.5

[rmonsalve]

I´ve installed Kubuntu 6.06 LTS in my computer.

When the installation program finishes, I restarted the computer and the following mensages appears on screen:

"GRUB Loading stage1.5.

GRUB Loading, please wait ...

Error 17"

To alleviate the problem I´ve reinstalled Kubuntu, but the problem continued.

I studied the documentation of GRUB Legacy (version 0.97) and find the description of the error message:

"Cannot mount selected partition: This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the filesystem type
cannot be recognized by GRUB."

I think the reason of the error is that GRUB is trying to mount a wrong partition, perhaps a Windows XP partition with the NTFS filesystem, not the Kubuntu partition with the Ext3 filesystem.

I hope someone can help me with this, with the solution to the problem or with suggestions to fix it.

Computer Specs:

Processor: Pentium 4, 2.93 Ghz
RAM: 1 GB
Hard Disk: 160 GB, IDE

[Rog131]

Re: [c] GRUB´s Error 17 on Stage 1.5

Hmm - does grub find /boot/grub/menu.lst ?
(You could start kubuntu from cd -> Start Kubuntu in safe graphic mode.)

In the konsole:

:~$ sudo grub
Password:

  GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

    [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For
     the  first  word, TAB lists possible command
     completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
     completions of a device/filename. ]

grub> find /boot/grub/menu.lst
(hd2,0)

grub>quit

Here it finds it (hd2,0).

[rmonsalve]

Re: [c] GRUB´s Error 17 on Stage 1.5

GRUB doesn´t found /boot/grub/menu.lst. When I tried to find it, GRUB print the following error message:

"Error 15: File not found"

The Live CD doesn´t mount my ext3 filesystem automatically, so I mount it manually with the command mount -a. Before that I had to edit the file /etc/fstab to add the filesystems existent in the disk and create the mount points necesary.

Directories created:

/mount/hda1
/mount/hda3
/mount/hda4

Contents of the file /etc/fstab:

unionfs / unionfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,user,async 0 0
/dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 ntfs rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,user,async 0 0
/dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 ext3 rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,user,async 0 0

The mount was sucessfull, as konqueror showed.

Next, I tried to find again /boot/grub/menu.lst. GRUB printed the error 15 again.

What´s next?

[penguin.ch]

Re: [c] GRUB´s Error 17 on Stage 1.5

In your case, it is supposed to be /mnt/hda4/boot/grub/menu.lst

[rmonsalve]

Re: [c] GRUB´s Error 17 on Stage 1.5

In your case, it is supposed to be /mnt/hda4/boot/grub/menu.lst

You´re right. I tried to find it again, but GRUB print error 15 anyway.

[Rog131]

Re: [c] GRUB´s Error 17 on Stage 1.5

Hmm - here grub finds /boot/grub/menu.lst without mounting (using kubuntu cd).

Hmm #2 - If grub is pointing to the wrong partition then it should give error #15 File not found. This error is returned if the specified file name cannot be found, but everything else (like the disk/partition info) is OK. ( this at least when it is pointing wrong linux partition I haven't tried what happens with fat/ntfs)


Have you checked that you have /boot/grub folder ?

If you don't have it:

You could make /boot/grub
copy files from /lib/grub/i386-pc/ to the /boot/grub
run update-grub (update-grub - program to generate GRUB’s menu.lst file)

After that - Does grub find /boot/grub/menu.lst.
Try reinstall grub (Topic: Recovering GRUB after XP reinstallation http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=11514) Do you get errors ?

Are you using normal kubuntu cd or alternative cd ? I have read that sometimes alternative cd works better.