Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3100 mails)

["Hipolito A. Gonzalez M." <hgonzale@xxxxxxxxx>]

JUAN ERNESTO FLORES BELTRAN wrote:

> Hi you all,
>
> I am having a trouble booting suse 10, i receive Grub Error 17 
> everitime suse is rebooted. No recoveries of system are possible when 
> recovering the system with suse disk number one.
>
> I inserted CD1 and rebooted the system, and then entered 
> others/repair_existent_installation, but it fails at 51% of the 
> process. Then i selected others/enter_existent_installation, it sends 
> me to the command mode but i have not found any way to rescue the 
> actual installation.
>
> Finally i decided to save my important files to a usb pendrive but no 
> mounting of the device has been possible. I just enter: "mount -t type 
> device dir" like this:
>
> mount -t subfs /dev/sdb1 /home/juanflores/pendrive
>
> then
>
> mount
>
> but it never appears as mounted...
> any suggestion??
> thanks
Read: info grub and check the trouble section
The Error 17 is:

17 : Cannot mount selected partition
    This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the
    filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB.