Grub Error 17

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MPwannadecentincome replied

23 February 2010, 23:51
do you ever get a week without any problem of some sort?

just curious that's all!
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pmeswani replied

21 February 2010, 08:50
Have you seen http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=442945 ?
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suityou01 replied

17 February 2010, 06:03
Originally posted by administrator View Post

Nice! I hate hard drive problems

W.A.S.
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administrator replied

16 February 2010, 23:40
Nice! I hate hard drive problems
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suityou01 replied

16 February 2010, 23:33
Originally posted by administrator View Post

Nope, image of the drive will not make the partition bootable.

Try this:
http://stringofthoughts.wordpress.co...-debianubuntu/

It was indeed a messed up partition table order. The bios suddenly reverted to using hda for boot. hda was the old ide disk before the rebuild which still had an old copy of grub on it. So it booted, got as far as looking for a non existent parition and bailed this giving me palpitations.

I booted off a live CD and could see all the drives, including the freshly imaged one although it was now no longer called sda, rather sdb

Then the penny dropped. I booted to bios, fixed the boot order and weyhey.

Still not idea why the BIOS decided to shuffle the boot order on a drive swap though. Considering the machine was never booted with a drive 'missing'

So tired, I'm a mess. Going to bed before I break anything.
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administrator replied

16 February 2010, 23:04
Nope, image of the drive will not make the partition bootable.

Try this:
http://stringofthoughts.wordpress.co...-debianubuntu/
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suityou01 started a topic Grub Error 17

16 February 2010, 22:58
Grub Error 17

Got a hard disk wobble so decided to replace HDD

took a drive image

replace drive

re image

Grub is loading please wait ....
Error 17

Waited for a bit. Got bored.

It appears error 17 is 'cannot mount partition'

Anyone be of any help? If I replace sda (sata disk 0) and image back to it, should the mount point not be the same?
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