Bug#227515: grub: Error 17 after hiding linux partition

[William Thompson]

Subject: grub: Error 17 after hiding linux partition
Package: grub
Version: 0.93+cvs20031021-8
Severity: normal

I have 4 partitions (linux/ext3 on 4th).  I use partition 1 for testing
windows 2000 (which I hide the other partitions).  partition 2 and 3 are
other windows partitions.

I had grub setup to hide partitions 2, 3 and 4 when booting partition 1. 
That worked.  Atleast until I rebooted.  I got Error 17 when I rebooted.  A
simple change of partition 4 back to 83 fixed the problem.

Seems grub cares about the partition type.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux potato 2.4.23 #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 16:26:25 EST 2003 i686
un

Versions of the packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6          2.3.2.ds1-10   GNU C Library: Shared libraries and
Timezone
ii  libncurses5    5.3.20030510-1 Shared libraries for terminal handling