Quoting Nick W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > A guess, but is there a grub.conf file anywhere in the /boot directory of the > > install? Maybe it's not reading menu.lst. > >
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hello Nick, You may be on to something. The grub directory contains menu.lst and a few other files, and there is a boot directory, but the boot directory seems to be empty. I hope this helps. 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
