Re: Grub runs upto stage 1.5 & then gives error 17

[adrian15]

Shirish Agarwal escribió:
> Hi all,
>       I have one 80 GB HDD which has Windows XPSP2 (NTFS based) & Ubuntu 
> 6.06 upgraded to Ubuntu 6.10 (ext2). It had GNU GRUB 0.97 running 
> underneath it all. Everything was running fine  & suddenly yesterday it 
> gave me error 17. Looking in Grub Legacy came to know tht error 17 means :-
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Stage1_002e5-errors
>
> 17 : Cannot mount selected partition
>    This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the
>    filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB.
>
>  Now in such should I re-install everything or is there some sorta hack 
> which can make it good without re-installing the whole thing.

You should run fsck with some options from a live cd, try to boot and if
it does not work reinstall grub again. (You can use Super Grub Disk (
http://supergrub.forjamari.linex.org ) to reinstall it  or follow some
live cd instructions for reinstalling grub that are available in the
internet))

adrian15