[gobolinux-users] Grub + SATA = Error 17?

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 1/2/07, Vasyl Zubko <molfar.ua at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all!
> Sorry to bother you with this possibly lame issue, but I think I've got a
> real showstopper with Gobolinux 013 release (for me, of course).
> I've searched the mailing-lists, forums, google etc. trying to find any
> consistent solution to my problem but I failed. And it seems that Gobo
> knowledge base is down.
> So my last best chance must be here. The problem is as follows:
> My primary OS is WinXP. When I try to install Gobolinux (with all due extra
> partitioning) everything seems to proceed well, up until I reboot. Then
> nothing happens - ntloader boots XP as usual. Ok, some googling reveals that
> there is a kind of bug in Gobo install procedure that sometimes prevents
> Grub from writing over MBR. No problem - booting from livecd and installing
> grub manually helps to fix this. Voila! Grub splash screen loads and leaves
> me all the default choices. However, when I choose any of them but WinXP -
> "error 17... blah-blah" string shows. The end.
> Root partition was already Ext3 - formatting it to ReiserFS didn't help
> either.
> Some more googling pointed out the possibility that this issue is of concern
> due to some kernel module not loading on startup (smth for SATA controller
> namely). What do you think?

This seems to be a problem on grub's menu.lst generation. Could you
please verify if the root(x,y) values in
/System/Kernel/Boot/grub/menu.lst are correct? You can check that by
running grub in the command line and using tab completion to see the
available options. Something like this:

$ grub
grub> root (hd<TAB>
  Possible disks are:  hd0 hd1

grub> root(hd0,<TAB>
grub> root(hd0,0)

> P.S. Does anyone know when 014 is expected? :)

I guess we're going to have something in the middle of this year.

-- 
Lucas
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