James ha scritto:

Hello,

I've just been given a gentoo system, that was installed about 8 months
ago(stage 1). When I try to boot the machine I get as far a Grub 1.5 and this
error message:

"GRUB Loading styage 1.5.
GRUB loading, please wait
Error 17"

What alternatives (like a boot floppy) do I have to
get this system up, so I can copy off critical files?

This system did work, as I set it up initially for a friend,
but now it's hosed.....


James



Can you boot from a linux cd ?
help yourself with the following installation guide (you will *not* need to do all steps)


http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml

with this you can read/write on your disk.

To make it function again you want to redo *all* in

"Code Listing 1.11: Install and configure GRUB"

section, (alternatively to emerge grub , emerge grub-static)

francesco

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