Ubuntu :: Grub Error 17, Grubfix Error 22, Unable To Boot?
Feb 6, 2010
not sure what happened, yesterday i installed the new kernel and played around a bit by uninstalling some older kernels. Everything was fine but now i cant boot into ubuntu any more. I have a Dual boot and Grub let me boot into windows. for linux grub gave error 17 (if i remember correctly).o i popped in the LiveCD and tryed gparted to check for errors (nothing changed). I tried rewriting grub from the live cd and that made matters worse.
Code:
grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
find /boot/grub/stage1
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Jul 8, 2011
I am new to Linux. I have installed RHEL 5.4 on my PC with preloaded Windows XP.
Windows was set as the first boot kernel. So if i do not choose which OS to be loaded it will load Windows by Default.
Today I got an error saying GRub Loading Stage2 read error.
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Sep 2, 2009
I installed windows and haven't been able to boot to fedora since. Without a boot disk my machine complains 'BOOTMGR is missing'. If I use a boot disk to access grub on another linux partition (/dev/sda5) I can try to boot my fedora install using its old grub.conf settings. However this gives me the grub error:
Code:
root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29.6-213.fc11.x86_64 ro root=UUID=63608748-e626-4a3f-9232-c836524f606f rhgb quiet
Error 2: Bad file or directory type
Darn grub thinks the file system type is ext2fs - this makes me think windows might have written something (perhaps its bootloader) to the first partition rather than the MBR.
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Nov 27, 2010
I decided to install Ubuntu on my desktop after the setup went well on my laptop and I liked the OS. I already had Windows 7 and Backtrack 9 installed on my HDD, so when I was in setup I took the 200gb partition for BT9 and formatted SDA5 to ext3 with "/" as the root. Then checked "format" and selected SDA5 from dropdown list and continued to install.Everything went smooth in the installation and I was prompted to reboot which I did assuming I would soon see a GRUB screen. Instead I got an error saying
"Grub loading stage1.5.
Grub loading, please wait...
error 15"
and then the computer just freezes. I've tried to boot from CD but I just get "CD-ROM Boot Priority ...Boot Ready" and then after about 30 seconds it tries to boot from the HDD and I get the same error.I've read that I need to configure GRUB somehow but I have no idea how to do that and I can't boot anything from a CD because it just waits and then jumps to the HDD. I guess what i'm asking is if there is a way to configure GRUB from the BIOS menu or make it possible to be able to boot from a CD.
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Jul 31, 2009
A few days ago I decided to ditch Windows for good. I read for hours about a Linux distro and settled on OpenSUSE.
I just need to say one thing. Linux is not for the feint of heart, and everywhere I turn (forums), I see computers riddled with error messages, frustrated people, and the list goes on.
I'm willing to work through this though since I feel that the benefits will outweigh anything that Microsoft can offer, so here goes.
Upon installing the new build of OpenSUSE, I encountered an error message that was fixed by hitting retry (I forgot the name, but I remember it being something like Etk3 or something of the sort).
My issue now is not being able to boot into the OS. I'm getting Error 25 from GRUB on stage 1.5
I've installed 11.1 over my Windows XP partition. I want XP no more. Additionally, I read the sticky and followed all the instructions. I also selected the KDE desktop (I still don't know the difference between that and GNOME despite Googling it several times).
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Feb 24, 2009
I'm running Debian testing and after a recent software update, suddenly I can no longer boot into my single Linux kernel image anymore. I did look at the software update before I did it and I don't believe that it removed any software packages. When I try to boot into my linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 image, I get the following message from grub:"error: unknown command `initrd'"..The same error appears if I try to boot into single-user mode. I have a Windows XP partition on the same hard disk and I am still able to boot into that from grub. I've searched the net and haven't really found my same problem replicated anywhere. I would imagine that the problem is just that somehow the initrd package got removed in my last software update, but again I don't recall seeing any software that the update planned to remove.
Any thoughts on how I would go about fixing this problem? Since I'm unable to get into Linux at all, I imagine I'll have to use a LiveCD to get in and fix the problem, but I don't know where to begin looking.
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May 21, 2011
Ubuntu 9.10 was set up to handle the booting selection - previously I thought it was xp but Ubuntu 9.10 "did" it. The system started out as a xp / ubuntu 9.10 dual boot on a 400gb drive. xp has 210gb, ub has 80 and their is a 100gb shared storage. Xp was installed first and then I followed a guide over at linuxconfig.org to get ub installed so that I could select which OS was wanted at boot. Ubuntu manages the boot up menu (Went back to look at my notes from the original setup) The owner tried to update to ub 11.04 and afterall was said and done the machine now boots to the message
error file not found grub rescue I can't say if 11.04 was properly installed or not. Ask whatever you like and I'll give the best answer I can. I think the xp install is okay but I can't say for certain as I don't know how to boot it outside the bootmanager at startup. Data has been saved so if I have to blow it all away and start over I can but I'm hoping I won't have to.
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Apr 30, 2010
After upgrading to 10.04 from 9.10 Win7 wouldn't startup any more. So I tried this HowTo: [URL] to restore Grub2. But now each time I boot up I get this two lines: error file not found grub rescue> I have NO idea what to do.
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May 16, 2011
we have an oracle application server on red hat 4.6 upon booting it comes up with error: attempting boot from hard drive (c GRUB)
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Feb 13, 2010
I used proprietary software (acronis trueimage) to clone an Opensuse 11.1 machine, onto another machine with somewhat distinct hardware (different motherboard, less memory). I expected to have to change entries in /boot/grub/menu.lst, /etc/fstab, etc. I was told a good way to do this was to use the Opensuse DVD's "repair installed system" feature.
When I ran the repair, I was informed that "bootloader configuration file contains errors". I attempted to re-install the bootloader, but received this unhelpful error: "An error occurred during boot loader installation. Retry boot loader configuration?". When I boot the system, I just see the text "GRUB ", followed by a flashing underscore character.
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Nov 23, 2010
I have a dual boot system with ubuntu 9.10 x64 and Windows 7. Everything has been working fine for a a long time but yesterday I tried to delete an unused partition through the Disk Utility in ubuntu (System->Adminstration->Disk Utility) and everything was messed up. I used to get the "Grub error: Unknown filesystem". I managed to create an ubuntu bootable usb and followed some tutorials for fixing grub but all i managed to do is to get another error: "Grub error: No such disc". After some experimentation i got
"Grub stage 1.5" which gave me a grub> command prompt./dev/sda is the drive containing Windows and Ubuntu.
Code:
[ Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub 0.97 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive
in partition #6 for /boot/grub/stage2 and /boot/grub/menu.lst.
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Dec 16, 2010
I updated yesterday and now when I start my laptop it goes in to grub rescue mode. I have booted from a 'live cd' and thought I could repair grub from there. In gparted however the partition with ubuntu (sda1) is seen as unknown file system, in terminal when I list the partition table it shows up as FAT16 type. When I try a grub-install it gives this error message:
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Nov 3, 2010
Whenever I boot my laptop, I get the following three lines:Code:error: syntax error.error:Incorrect command.error: syntax error.Right after I see the error messages for a couple seconds, the boot screen shows up and the rest of the boot progresses as normal. I'm on a Wubi 10.10 ubuntu install and I'm pretty sure this error has something to do with the GRUB_TIMEOUT line on 'etc/default/grub' file.I was experiencing some weird glitches with the boot splash screen (it was in the wrong resolution and would not display some times) so I edited that file to make it work. Here is the file:
Code:
# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
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Sep 4, 2010
I installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on a machine with 8.04 LTS, and have dualboot between those i system.The problem is when a start a get a message:'Boot error'If I hit 'Esc' I get to the Grub -meny and can boot as normal.
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Apr 7, 2010
after doing an upgrade to 10.4 and updating grub I get this message. how do I address this
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Feb 19, 2010
I made an xubuntu disk.loaded it and rewrote my hardrive.on a pretty old averatec laptop. 3/4 of the install it gives a a io error and stops the install.I tried to reinstall from the screen again but got the same error.So I rebooted and it skips everything and goes straight to a grub loading stage 1.5, grub loading error 17. It even skips the live cd.I also tried to do it thru a usb stick but that gets ignored too.
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Apr 12, 2010
I have Win XP SP2 installed on my machine. I wanted to try Ubuntu and i created a CD an and wanted to install the OS. The CD booted and i selected the option of "using The OS together and selecting which one to boot" or something similar to that. Ubuntu and changed MBR and installed itself. However on restarting I am getting Error 18. Now i am unable to use my computer at all.
In recover my XP at the moment and how to install Linux so that it does not mess around with any other OS?
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Jul 8, 2010
I am on Ubuntu Lucid (updated till date). I am using Kernel Linux 2.6.32-24-generic Recently I am not being able to run Cheese (webcam tool). When run it is crashing. Upon starting it from prompt I noticed the following error : libv4lconvert: Error decompressing JPEG: fill_nbits error: need 2 more bits The program 'cheese' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
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I checked in Skype and there the webcam is working fine. I tried with Camorama but that always gives an error "Could not connect to /dev/video0, please check connections."
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Jun 17, 2010
I'm trying to fix the partitions on my laptop. how it was setup before I made the change:
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I shrunk the windows partition to about 150 gigs, and used the unallocated 25 or gigs and formatted it as ext4 and copied dev/sda1 to it. Now I have all the same as above now with
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I had two installations of ubuntu and deleted the sda1 partition. Now I get a GRUB Error 17 when I boot. I'm in a live CD and I have access to a console, how can I reconfigure GRUB?
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Sep 4, 2010
Edit: This is somewhat inaccurate, please see post #16 on page 2 for my actual situation
I'm more than a little confused by this. A little while back I had to reinstall my machine because I had a hard disk failure and I replaced my primary drive.Everything went perfectly smoothly, but then a couple of weeks after that when I rebooted, it dumped my into the grub rescue console
Code:
error: out of disk.
grub rescue>
So, I found a solution to the problem on these forums, rebooted perfectly fine, and thought everything was fine. Until the next time I rebooted, when it happened again. And now, every single time I reboot, I get the same issue.I have to do the following, each and every time I want to reboot - and i'm at a loss to explain why grub is borking itself every time.Boot off a live cd.Open a konsole window
Code:
sudo su -
mount /dev/sda6 /mnt
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
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Jul 10, 2010
I installed GRUB 2 for someone, and I made a mistake, and did not specify the right place (/dev/sda3 for me) when it asked. Now I can't do anything. I can't boot GRUB, can't do nothing.
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May 13, 2010
On boot I'm getting
GRUB error 17
on a Windows vista dual boot with mandriva 2010, and I'm using a mandriva LiveCD.
fdisk -l
I see other posts asking for output of grub files in /etc/ none found on my kit, closest I see is
other posts reference this block of cmds to which I need to perserve my dual boot so uncertain how to proceed
How do I make sense of output of fdisk shown above to issue above block of cmds ? Am familiar with unix as a software developer, not sysadmin
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Feb 15, 2010
Here the other day, I decided to try out 10.04 Alpha. But after I had done it, I weren't able to boot Vista anymore. When I choose it in the grub boot loader, it changes to only showing the word "GRUB", and nothing more happens. As a desperate attempt to fix it, and because I weren't happy using the Alpha, I then decided to switch back to 9.10, but the problem with booting Vista persists.
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May 12, 2010
In the past month or two I've run into a strange problem where Grub gives error 18 "Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS". Strange because:
1) after a few tries it mysteriously starts working again without any change on my part
2) I am not running a dual boot system, which seems to be the usual cause of this problem
3) though I have SATA hard drives, I have the RAID capabilities disabled in the BIOS, which can also apparently lead to this problem.
I'm currently running lucid but it also happened once before I upgraded. It seemed to start happening not too long after I installed a new 1TB drive, though that drive is only mounted under /mnt/backup, and not anywhere else of importance, so it may be a coincidence.
Here are some specs on my machine:
BIOS is ALive NF6G-VSTA P1.80
I have 2 SATA drives (no IDE drives except DVD-ROM):
/dev/sda is a 200GB Samsung drive with two partitions
- sda1 is about 197GB and includes / (including /boot)
- sda2 is about 3GB of swap
/dev/sdb is a 1TB Western Digital Drive
- 1 partition mounted at /mnt/backup
If the problem is that I don't have a separate partition for /boot, shouldn't the error show up every time I boot, not just once in a while?
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Jul 5, 2010
Here is my current setup for my laptop: I dual boot Windows Vista and Ubuntu 9.04. Vista is on the laptop's HDD while Ubuntu is on an external USB HDD. When turning my laptop on, if the external hard drive is either not on or disconnected, I get "Error 21" and nothing happens. Normally this wouldn't be a problem, but when I need to take my laptop somewhere where I do not have access to my external HDD, it is rendered completely useless. So is it possible to set up GRUB (or possibly another bootloader) to boot regardless of whether or not it detects the drive Ubuntu is installed on?
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Jul 8, 2010
then my computer starts black window opens error: no such partition grub rescue>
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Jul 30, 2010
I have an IBM T60 which already had Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04 running fine in dual boot. For work reasons, I also needed Windows XP, so I started to install it last night. The install didn't work because of lacking SATA drivers, but when I tried to reboot my computer, GRUB was giving an error. [grub rescue>] Rebooted with the live CD and attempted to reinstall GRUB, but I still get the same error when I restart. I reinstalled GRUB with the directions from here: [URL]...
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Sep 10, 2010
I just installed Ubuntu on a computer but it can't boot, it ends with a greb-rescue error.
What shall I do? Here's my fstab and my sudo blkid. I did an ubuntu side installation with xp.
Le FSTAB
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=3a307ad3-99a9-4301-8ad0-f601ef9d157c / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=5b3ff501-f07c-4c2e-ac2d-a238b599cbe2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
SUDO BLKID:
/dev/sda1: LABEL="System" UUID="26AC3F75AC3F3E9D" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda6: UUID="5b3ff501-f07c-4c2e-ac2d-a238b599cbe2" TYPE="swap"
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="3a307ad3-99a9-4301-8ad0-f601ef9d157c" TYPE="ext4"
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Jan 15, 2011
I was trying to install Backtrack - Ubuntu dual boot with ubuntu pre-installed. I created another partition for backtrack but now grub doesn't point to the correct file in order to start Ubuntu, and so only backtrack starts. How can I correct it? I am able to mount my Ubuntu Partition and the files at /boot/ (in the ubuntu partition) mentioned at menu.lst at /boot/grub/ on the backtrack partition seem to exist... Does anybody know what should I do? (e.g. point menu.lst to the /dev/sda1/boot/IMAGES or something?)
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May 6, 2011
I am persuaded now (too late) that I need to invest in a robust backup scheme.
I had refit dual-booting snow leopard and ubuntu 10.10.
I tried to upgrade to 11.04 and it got stuck on bootup after the upgrade.
So I went into disk utility and deleted what I thought were all partitions except the mac one. I rebooted, and now I get the grub no partition error.
Did I delete my mac partition? I don't think that I did. How do I boot back into mac os x? Using the option key on bootup no longer shows a mac disk and inserting the mac os x system cd doesn't show any options either.
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