Grub loading error 17

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Thu May 7 22:34:45 UTC 2009


On 05/07/2009 04:11 PM, John Heinen wrote:
> I left ubuntu due to an annoying problem with Firefox browser, started
> and loaded "dreamlinux. On the restart  I have this message   "Grub
> loading, error 17.   I can't restart  the computer with any of these:
> windows xp, ubuntu, or dreamlinux   Any sugestions?
> 

The 9.04 version of grub uses inode size of 256, the others are most
likely using 128. Perhaps reinstalling grub from dreamlinux will work.

I highly recommend Supergrub to fix:
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/
  http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/Boot_Problems


Added info/resources:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto
http://www.google.com/search?complete=0&hl=en&q=grub+%2Binode+256
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+bug/197951
[GRUB needs priority update]






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