[mdlug] Grub error 17 (solved)

[Stan Green]

Thanks Jeff!

I think this is what happened. I have two hard drives and they were swapped, I 
assume by the BIOS. I also notices that Knoppix sees the drives in the reverse 
order from Debian. So in Knoppix, it looked fine. I fixed it by booting to 
SuperGrub and was able to find the issue and get the system working again.

Regards,
Stan

On Saturday 21 August 2010 03:33:25 pm you wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Stan Green <Stan at mcomputersolutions.com> 
wrote:
> > Thanks for the suggestion.
> >
> > The USB drive was not in the machine when the system was installed, so
> > there is no way GRUB could have seen it as a boot drive.
> >
> > The machine was booting fine until I messed with dbus and hal. This may
> > or may not be related to the error 17.
>
> Depending on BIOS settings the drive boot order/number may change if
> another bootable drive is added (like a USB drive).  One solution is
> to disable USB booting.  If Grub is installed when a USB drive is
> connected during boot/POST then boot drive number it set in the MBR
> will be wrong if the drive is removed later.
>
> A similar situation involves RAID1 configurations when you want to be
> able to boot from the second drive when the first fails.  You have to
> install Grub to the second drive configured as if it was the first
> otherwise it won't boot when the first is removed.