On Sat, August 9, 2008 19:45, John Andersen wrote:
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 4:58 AM, Joe Morris <Joe_Morris@ntm.org> wrote:
On 08/09/2008 07:11 PM, Ed Harrison wrote:
Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
When de USB drive is plugged in, it works perfectly. But now when the USB drive is not plugged in, I get grub error 17.
Is it possible tha Grub has "issues"? Or am I calling it a "bug" too soon and is it just a problem between keyboard and chair? ;-)
It sounds like grub was installed to the usb drive. Please boot with a livecd and post /boot/grub/menu.lst. Also, post the result of fdisk -l (run as root or su).
Ed
If grub was installed to the USB drive, he would not get the grub error without the usb drive plugged in.
Which is exactly what he DOES get Joe.....
Guys, please... Opensuse is a great Linux distribution, but it still cannot install grub on a disconnected, unpowered usb disk that is more than 10 meters away in another room. If it could, Respect!! I can assure you with 200% certainty that the usb disk was never, and I repeat, never connected when grub was installed. To prove this, I look in the first 1K of the device to see if grub is installed. First I show you sda (first fixed hard disk) and sda2, the /boot partition, then I show you sdd (usb disk). amedee@saruman:~> sudo dd count=1k if=/dev/sda | strings | grep -i grub 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records uit 524288 bytes (524 kB) gekopieerd, 0,0155034 s, 33,8 MB/s /grub/stage2 /grub/menu.lst GRUB loading, please wait... amedee@saruman:~> sudo dd count=1k if=/dev/sda2 | strings | grep -i grub 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records uit 524288 bytes (524 kB) gekopieerd, 0,0293791 s, 17,8 MB/s GRUB amedee@saruman:~> sudo dd count=1k if=/dev/sdd | strings | grep -i grub 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records uit 524288 bytes (524 kB) gekopieerd, 0,0147808 s, 35,5 MB/s amedee@saruman:~> sudo dd count=1k if=/dev/sdd1 | strings | grep -i grub 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records uit 524288 bytes (524 kB) gekopieerd, 0,0142482 s, 36,8 MB/s As you can see, grub isn't installed on the usb disk. -- Amedee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org