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From: felmon on 30 Apr 2010 00:29
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:12:18 +1000, rock wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have an XP box with 2 HDs C: XP and D: 2 partitions, 1 for XP data and
> the 2nd I want to install Linux (MEPIS).
>
> I have the CD and it works fine as a CD os. I did an install and chose
> the partition I want for Linux on hd2 and then the Grub for hd1.
>
> It said it had installed it okay but when I rebooted I got..
>
> Grub loading 1.5
> Grub loading please wait
>
> Error 17.
>
> Now I can't get boot into XP or Linix, so I guess the loader is
> confused.
>
> Any help getting it back okay please?
>
> rock
>
> -------------------------------------------
>
> This is the full contents of my /boot/grub/menu.list
>
> timeout 10
> color cyan/blue white/blue
> foreground ffffff
> background 0639a1
>
> gfxmenu /boot/grub/message
>
> title MEPIS at hdb2, newest kernel
> root (hd1,1)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb2 nomce quiet splash vga=789 initrd
> /boot/initrd.img
> boot
>
> title MEPIS at hdb2, kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp root (hd1,1)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-1-mepis-smp root=/dev/hdb2 nomce quiet
> splash vga=789
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-1-mepis-smp boot
>
> title Microsoft Windows XP Professional at hda1 rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
>
> title MEMTEST
> kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin

in a later post in this thread, you said the set-up was;

hdb1 156.30 GiB
/dev/hdfb1 ntfs /mnt/hbd1
/dev/hdb2 ext 3 /mnt/hdb2

I think there is a typo here on the second line so I am assuming

/dev/hdb1 ntfs /mnt/hbd1

so this says that Windows is on the 2nd hard-drive or in grub speak
hd1,0. I don't know how this happened but the other grub stuff looks
wrong too.

in your shoes I would:

a) read up on grub's menu.lst

b) figure out where your operating systems are and what their locations
are called in grub speak

c) then read up on how to edit grub when booting. you can change menu.lst
on the fly and boot in correctly.

I would not bother to reinstall unless you just need the exercise and
sport.

Felmon
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