Re: grub error 17 on 2Tb harddisk

[gw l]

it is my spell mistake, it was hd0, not dh0
> In the second you specified setup to dh0 not hd0.

2013/9/4 Chris Murphy <address@hidden>

On Sep 3, 2013, at 5:05 AM, gw l <address@hidden> wrote:

> I have 4 partition on 2Tb hard disk.
>    sda1  windows
>    sda2  data
>    sda3  linux
>    sda4  grub
>
> boot from sda3 works well.
> but failed booting from sda4
>
> I see grub is support 2Tb harddisk.  the grub partition is at the end of harddisk.
>
> #### works well boot configuration###
> root (hd0,2)
> setup (hd0)
>
>
> #### failed boot configration #####
> root (hd0,3)
> setup (dh0)

In the second you specified setup to dh0 not hd0.

And also this is GRUB legacy syntax not GRUB2. GRUB legacy isn't maintained for a long time and you should use GRUB2 anyway, but especially for GRUB2.


Chris Murphy