GRUB Error - help 2

Jozsi · External Since: Dec 13, 2011 Posts: 2

Hallo NG!

can to LINUX beginner an advice you give?
I have to my laptop the following message:

GRUB Loader
Error 17

For each Hinnweis I thank ahead!

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Eef Hartman · External Since: Jul 12, 2009 Posts: 91

Jozsi wrote:
> Hallo NG!
>
> can to LINUX beginner an advice you give?
> I have to my laptop the following message:
>
> GRUB Loader
> Error 17

From the (grub legacy, the one used in openSUSE 11.x) manual:
17 : Cannot mount selected partition
This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but
the filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB.

So probably your root (or boot) partition is of a type that
grub doesn't support, like ext4 or btrfs.

PS: the grub (legacy) manual is at
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/legacy
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John Bowling · External Since: Aug 21, 2004 Posts: 259

On 12/13/2011 07:54 AM, Eef Hartman wrote:
> Jozsi wrote:
>> Hallo NG!
>>
>> can to LINUX beginner an advice you give?
>> I have to my laptop the following message:
>>
>> GRUB Loader
>> Error 17
>
> From the (grub legacy, the one used in openSUSE 11.x) manual:
> 17 : Cannot mount selected partition
> This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but
> the filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB.
>
> So probably your root (or boot) partition is of a type that
> grub doesn't support, like ext4 or btrfs.
>
> PS: the grub (legacy) manual is at
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/legacy

My system has / as ext4 and /boot is not a separate partition so it is
ext4 throughout the grub directory. It has no problem with grub booting
into 12.1 or 11.4, a different partition using ext4.

I have no ext2 which is what is recommended if /boot is a separate
partition. Everything except extension and swap are ext4.

Apparently the grub manual is out of date or referring to those systems
with a separate /boot partition.

John

VWWall · External Since: Aug 27, 2009 Posts: 4

Eef Hartman wrote:
> Jozsi wrote:
>> Hallo NG!
>>
>> can to LINUX beginner an advice you give?
>> I have to my laptop the following message:
>>
>> GRUB Loader
>> Error 17
>
> From the (grub legacy, the one used in openSUSE 11.x) manual:
> 17 : Cannot mount selected partition
> This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but
> the filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB.
>
> So probably your root (or boot) partition is of a type that
> grub doesn't support, like ext4 or btrfs.
>
Some Linux distros changed the inode size from 128 to 256 before
changing to ext4 as a default file system. I found some GRUB would not
work with the larger inode size.

> PS: the grub (legacy) manual is at
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/legacy

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Virg Wall

Eef Hartman · External Since: Jul 12, 2009 Posts: 91

John Bowling wrote:
> On 12/13/2011 07:54 AM, Eef Hartman wrote:
> Apparently the grub manual is out of date or referring to those systems
> with a separate /boot partition.

Essentially the grub itself (the one openSUSE uses) is out of date,
as it's version 0.97 (so-called grub legacy), which only has
e2fs_stage1.5 available for ext? fs'es (although that one WILL work
with ext3 too, the differences aren't important for just reading).

I'm actually not all that sure ext4 will not boot, but it IS
officially not supported by grub legacy. and may fail when the
filesystem uses features e2fs_stage1.5 doesn't understand.

I quote from the same manual:
>For any particular partition, it is presumed that only one of the
>normal filesystems such as FAT, FFS, or ext2fs can be used
(actually the list is a little bit longer, as it can boot from i.e.
reiserfs, jfs or xsf, or even CD-rom (iso9660) too).
The complete list of stage 1.5 files in MY system is:
e2fs_stage1_5
fat_stage1_5
ffs_stage1_5
iso9660_stage1_5
jfs_stage1_5
minix_stage1_5
reiserfs_stage1_5
ufs2_stage1_5
vstafs_stage1_5
xfs_stage1_5
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Jozsi · External Since: Dec 13, 2011 Posts: 2

Hello Fan´s!
The Promlem was produced by a hardware error.
HDD Defeckt!
Nevertheless thanks!

Babelfish!!!!

"VWWall" schrieb im Newsbeitrag

> Eef Hartman wrote:
>> Jozsi wrote:
>>> Hallo NG!
>>>
>>> can to LINUX beginner an advice you give?
>>> I have to my laptop the following message:
>>>
>>> GRUB Loader
>>> Error 17
>>
>> From the (grub legacy, the one used in openSUSE 11.x) manual:
>> 17 : Cannot mount selected partition
>> This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but
>> the filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB. So probably your
>> root (or boot) partition is of a type that
>> grub doesn't support, like ext4 or btrfs.
>>
> Some Linux distros changed the inode size from 128 to 256 before changing
> to ext4 as a default file system. I found some GRUB would not work with
> the larger inode size.
>
>> PS: the grub (legacy) manual is at
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/legacy
>
> --
> Virg Wall
>