Bug#581594: error 17 source

[Jonathan Nieder]

retitle 581594 grub: doesn't show boot menu, "error 17"
severity 581594 important
tags 581594 + upstream
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Hi James,

Sorry for the long silence.

jamesb wrote:

> /dev/sda5  "/"    (this is on a logical partition)
> /dev/sda6 "swap"
>
> added /dev/sda7 logical partition with "ugly" partition manager.  ugly
> partition manager must of touched the CHS LBA values on partition table..
>
> "/dev/sda5/" totally usable as a mountpoint from a rescue cd. (when a
> /dev/sda7 is added, i added a new partition "unformatted" and took nothing
> more than 15 seconds)
>
> If someone is interested in comparing values, I can try to recreate this in a
> vm machine and dd the before and after which grub then seems to choke up
> error 17..

I'm curious: does this happen with grub2, too?

grub 1 is undermaintained nowadays, but some people use it, so it's
useful to have its bugs documented (and it's still sometimes possible
to fix them).  Thanks for your work.