Bug#297480: grub: doesn't boot with Error 17

[Mattia]

Package: grub
Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-15
Severity: important


Hi,

I installed grub in this way in the MBR:

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grub> root (hd0,1)
 Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83

grub> setup (hd0)
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5" exists... yes
 Running "embed /boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5 (hd0)"...  18 sectors
 are embedded.
 succeeded
 Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+18 p
 (hd0,1)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
Done.

grub> quit
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but when I reboot I have:

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Grub is loading. Please wait...

Error 17
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According to 'info grub', this is a problem with my partition not been
recognized.
My root partition is /dev/hda2:

$ cat /etc/fstab |grep hda2
/dev/hda2       /               reiserfs        defaults        0
1

$ ls -l /dev/hda2
lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root 33 2005-02-28 21:05 /dev/hda2 ->
ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2

$ cat /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0)   /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
(hd1)   /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc

The boot dir is in the same partition of "/".
I'm using devfs.
The hard disk is a Maxtor:
hda: Maxtor 6Y160P0, ATA DISK drive

This hard disk is set as master: could this be the problem?

I have successfully installed grub in a floppy.

Tell me if you need more info.

Regards,
Mattia.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10--bymattia
Locale: LANG=it_IT@euro, LC_CTYPE=it_IT@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-4        Shared libraries for terminal hand

-- no debconf information