Stage 2 of grub, which follows after stage 1.5, is obviously not loading, and I suspect the error #17 is EEXIST (from errno.h) stating the stage2 bootloader file is missing.
When you boot with the livecd, check and see if you have a /boot/grub/stage2 file present on your system. Perhaps it was somehow trashed/deleted. -----Original Message----- >From: William Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Apr 15, 2006 11:52 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [TriLUG] Grub boot problem > >I tried irc.freenode.net #grub (twice) and nobody responded, so to the >trilug list I come... > >Please bear with me as I'm trying to be as specific and detailed at the >outset as possible to give a clear picture of what's happening. Since I'm >not an expert on this, there may be a lot of useless data here. > >I have a system running Gentoo 2005.1, with all recent updates. Last >Sunday, I attempted to run xcdroast as root (it refused to run as a user >or under sudo...we can address that later, so no flames, please). It >locked the system (X refused to respond, keyboard Num Lock refused to >respond, remote login to kill the process was useless in that login was >allowed but kill, reboot, even init 0 responded with errors). > >I powered the system off, and powered it back on. > >It came up and said > >----- >GRUB _ >----- > >and sat there doing nothing. > >So I rebooted it (actually, the keyboard refused to respond again, so I >went through the manual power cycle process). I popped in my Gentoo >2005.1 livecd, mounted everything, and ran fsck on all the disks. Aside >from a large number of inodes freed, it passed muster. > >Before I go further, here's the output of fdisk -l: > >----- >Disk /dev/hda: 3240 MB, 3240646656 bytes >15 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6697 cylinders >Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 = 483840 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >/dev/hda1 * 1 217 102501 83 Linux >/dev/hda2 218 6697 3061800 83 Linux > >Disk /dev/sda: 9139 MB, 9139200000 bytes >255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1111 cylinders >Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >/dev/sda1 1 261 2096451 82 Linux swap / Solaris >/dev/sda2 262 1111 6827625 83 Linux > >Disk /dev/sdb: 36.7 GB, 36703918080 bytes >255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4462 cylinders >Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >/dev/sdb1 1 653 5245191 83 Linux >/dev/sdb2 654 4462 30595792+ 83 Linux >----- > >and the corresponding mounts from mount: > >----- >/dev/sdb2 on / type ext3 (rw) >/dev/sdb1 on /usr type ext3 (rw) >/dev/sda2 on /home type ext3 (rw) >/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) >/dev/hda2 on /var type ext3 (rw) >none on /proc type proc (rw,nodiratime) >----- > >To verify that I have the right disks for the next thing I wanted to do, I >checked /boot/grub/device.map: > >----- >(fd0) /dev/fd0 >(hd0) /dev/hda >(hd1) /dev/sda >(hd2) /dev/sdb >----- > >Now then...the next thing I did was to manually re-setup grub on the first >MBR of all disks (NB, it doesn't show here, but when I ran grub, there >were an awful lot of error messages about fd0; more on those later): > >----- >grub> root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > >grub> setup (hd0) > Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes > Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes > Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes > Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 16 sectors are embedded. >succeeded > Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 > /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded >Done. > >grub> setup (hd1) > Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes > Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes > Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes > Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd1)"... 16 sectors are embedded. >succeeded > Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd1) (hd1)1+16 p > (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded >Done. > >grub> setup (hd2) > Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes > Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes > Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes > Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd2)"... 16 sectors are embedded. >succeeded > Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd2) (hd2)1+16 p > (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded >Done. >----- > >looks ok to me, other than the messages previously mentioned. > >I rebooted. This time it came up and stated that it was loading Grub >stage 1.5. So far so good...until I saw the following (from memory): > >----- >Grub >Error 17 >----- > >Nothing beyond "Error 17". I googled all over the place but didn't find >anything that helped me in particular. So for giggles I decided to do a >grub-install --recheck to see if everything was OK. > >----- ># grub-install --recheck /dev/hda >Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. >end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 >end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 >Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 >end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 >Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 >ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide >hdc: No disk in drive >hdc: No disk in drive >end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 >end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 >end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 >Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 >end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 >Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 >----- > >Wow. All of the fd0 error messages I saw when I initially ran grub. >Here's a problem, though: grub goes through its errors and then gives me >an interface to work in. grub-install, which should give me some sort of >status, just keeps spitting these errors out. I have to CTRL+C to get out >of it. > >I can mount it off the livecd (which it presently is), so it's not >hopeless for retrieving data off of, but this situation has me bothered. >Optimally, I'd like to get it back up and booting properly. Failing that, >I'd like some sort of advice as to what to do (older SCSI drives, older >IDE drive, etc). > >So....can anyone help me? :) > >-- >William Sutton >-- >TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug >TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ >TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
