Cupe Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 I am triple booting right now, with XP, Ubuntu, and OSX86 Installed at different times: XP: Last year January Ubuntu: Last week OSX86: Today I am not much of a guy who enjoys back-up, so I don't want to reformat my pc and reinstall OS I also find it very risky, but what the hell, I enjoy OSX86 and I want to learn linux So the problem here is that after I installed OSX86, Ubuntu does not work anymore and gives me a Grub error 17 when I boot into it I have no experience in GRUB, so help me. I wonder if I should uninstall GRUB and reinstall it, fix it, or just patch it with NTLDR? Alternatively, can I change the partition ID of OSX86 to something else? Is there something else you can fool GRUB with so I can bypass 17? Thanks very much Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39488-grub-help-please/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawRobertson Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 (edited) Where is your grub installed? It's quite recommended that your /boot directory is in a different partition (a small one, of 100MB or less), so you can access it even if you delete a system. Also: do you have a Knoppix DVD or CD?? It's great to recover grub partitions. Your last option would be reinstall a Suse system, for example. With Suse you can set the /boot in other partition, modify your MBR or let it unmodified (as I recall, Ubuntu always modify your MBR) and the grub loader is kind of graphic, with colors and so Edited January 24, 2007 by LawRobertson Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39488-grub-help-please/#findComment-283952 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 (as I recall, Ubuntu always modify your MBR)Unless you use their 'advanced' install cd... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39488-grub-help-please/#findComment-284105 Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 (edited) How to install Grub from a live Ubuntu cd Then just add your OSx86 partition to menu.lst. I assume you have a separate system to read the how-to on? Edited January 25, 2007 by domino Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39488-grub-help-please/#findComment-284176 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 grub isn't damaged. error 17 means that grub cannot mount or find the desired partition i bet that you installed osx in the same hdd of linux and the partition number is changed or that you added another hdd and the linux on changed its number aswell to troubleshoot the problem press 'e' over the ubuntu entry in grub you can use 'tab' to edit commands and find the right partition Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39488-grub-help-please/#findComment-284410 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FavleX Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 I am triple booting right now, with XP, Ubuntu, and OSX86 Installed at different times: XP: Last year January Ubuntu: Last week OSX86: Today I am not much of a guy who enjoys back-up, so I don't want to reformat my pc and reinstall OS I also find it very risky, but what the hell, I enjoy OSX86 and I want to learn linux So the problem here is that after I installed OSX86, Ubuntu does not work anymore and gives me a Grub error 17 when I boot into it I have no experience in GRUB, so help me. I wonder if I should uninstall GRUB and reinstall it, fix it, or just patch it with NTLDR? Alternatively, can I change the partition ID of OSX86 to something else? Is there something else you can fool GRUB with so I can bypass 17? Thanks very much I don't understand very well , I mean it is very important to know which partition is active and which is not active . One this is for sure , you CAN use Grub to boot the three different system you got. For example I can post my menu.lst as follow: title Linux root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic root=/dev/hda6 ro vga=791 initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic quiet savedefault boot title recovery mode root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic root=/dev/hda6 vga=791 splash=verbose , theme:Nature initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic boot title memtest86+ root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin quiet boot title Hackintosh root (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 title Vista root (hd0,2) makeactive chainloader +1 ..so I got hackintosh on first,Linux on second( with an expanded partition:hda2-->hda5+hda6), and Vista on 3d partition. In general I use installing fist osxthen windows last linux..but you can do it different. The important thing is that make active osx partition,and windows partition with grub on MBR. I hope it helps in some way. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39488-grub-help-please/#findComment-287120 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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