Hi,
I get the frustrating Grub Error 17 while starting, which looks like this :
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Grub Loading stage1.5.
Grub loading, please wait...
Error 17============================This happen after a resizing partition I've done like follow :
Step 1- Successful decrease of the ubuntu partition (by the left) using Gparted runned from ubuntu live-CD.
As a result of Step 1, I've got an unallocated partition which was between the windows one and the ubuntu one, everything was ok because I succesfully reboot my system and using Grub menu, I loaded my windows XP Media Center Edition without any problem.
Step 2- From Windows I extended the windows partition to the unallocated one and there problems began. The system asked me to restart
and then the extension was done and finally when the system restart again I get the Grub Error 17 as described on the top.
Step 3- I runned the ubuntu live-CD to try to fix the problem and I do the following :
Step 3-1- Gparted looks like the atached screenshot
Gparted_now.jpeg.
Step 3-2- I went to the Terminal :
============================$ sudo grub
grub> find
/find/grub/stage1
Error 15 : File not found
grub> root (hd0,4) #as described on my /boot/grub/menu.lst
grub> setup (hd0)
Error 17 : Cannot mount selected partition
grub>============================Step 4- I downloaded and run the "bootinfoscript" from http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/ and I joined to this e-mail the file RESULTS.txt which was generated by the script.
Step 5- I've also tried to reinstall Grub.
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$ sudo grub-install /dev/sda
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device.
$
============================Step 6- I let Gparted to check the sda5 partition and here is the detailed report.
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GParted 0.3.5
Libparted 1.7.1
Check and repair filesystem (ext3) on /dev/sda5 03:14 ( SUCCES )
calibrate /dev/sda5 00:00 ( SUCCES )
path: /dev/sda5
start: 400323735
end: 598292729
size: 197968995
(94.40 GiB)
check filesystem on /dev/sda5 for errors and (if possible) fix them 03:14 ( SUCCES )
e2fsck -f -y -v /dev/sda5
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
253365 inodes used (4.09%)
2003 non-contiguous inodes (0.8%)
# of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 11237/121/1
12525039 blocks used (50.61%)
0 bad blocks
2 large files
197028 regular files
31672 directories
69 character device files
26 block device files
2 fifos
520 links
24551 symbolic links (22013 fast symbolic links)
8 sockets
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253876 files
e2fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
grow filesystem to fill the partition
00:00 ( SUCCES )
resize2fs /dev/sda5
resize2fs 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
The filesystem is already 24746124 blocks long. Nothing to do!
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The other BIG problem is that I can only access my ubuntu partition and not the windows one from the ubuntu live-CD and to my eyes it doesn't make any sens. You can get a glance to
access_windows.jpg to see the error message I get when I try to open the windows partition from the graphique menu.
Now, I don't know what to do and I don't want to scew it up.
Should I reinstall the ubuntu lastest version on hda5 to solve the problem ?
So please help...
Thanks.
Gparted_now.jpg
access_windows.jpg
RESULTS.txt