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Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition from USB brive boot

Asked by tadiv

I booted the Live CD (7.10) on my laptop and installed to a USB drive - grub and all. Without the USB drive attached, the laptop operates like normal. With the USB drive connected, GRUB starts up and when I select any OS, I get the Error 17 message...

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Tom

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Best Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#1

Hello Tadiv:

Here is a clear explanation of grub error 17.....

http://justlinux.com/forum/showpost.php?p=869980&postcount=6

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=442945

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

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tadiv (tadiv-comcast) said : 		#2

I must be thick -- I don't see anything clear about what is in that chain of writings...

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tadiv (tadiv-comcast) said : 		#3

SO -- somehow when I was installing Ubuntu, the USB drive was detected as hd1, but when booting from the USB drive, it seemed to think the USB drive was hd0. In boot/grub/menu.lst, I changed all "hd0" entries to "hd1" and the original hd1 entries to hd0 and now it boots properly...

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tadiv (tadiv-comcast) said : 		#4

Thanks Bhavani Shankar, that solved my question.