aixo Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 :::Solved (bottom)::: Hi everyone, I just recently installed OS X on an Acer Travelmate 533, the installation went fine (Generic Patch 4.2b) Problem comes when i restart my computer. If i remove de dvd installer I get a Grub error: GRUB loading, please wait... Error 17 I searched in this forum but couldn't get any topic on that. This machine had a previous kubuntu installation, i think Grub is there for this previous installation but i don't know why OS X didn't delete it. If I start with de installation DVD on everything is fine, and I can boot without problems. It says Press any key to boot Mac OSX and F8 for extra options. Any clue on that? Thank you so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellomo Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Hi, maybe it's useful if you put a description of your partition table and grub.conf in order to understand grub error. In any case grub error 17 is returned if the partition requested exists, but the filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB (from manual) b. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aixo Posted January 24, 2006 Author Share Posted January 24, 2006 This is what i have read about error 17. The problem is i don't know how to access grub.conf from my OS X desktop. I don't know if this is trivial or it's impossible. From *nix i know its in /boot but where can i find it now? Want to clarify I installed OS X on kubuntu partition and left the swap partition untouched. So the system is only for OS X. Why Grub haven't been overwrited? To many doubts, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJägermeister Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 This is what i have read about error 17. The problem is i don't know how to access grub.conf from my OS X desktop. I don't know if this is trivial or it's impossible. From *nix i know its in /boot but where can i find it now? Want to clarify I installed OS X on kubuntu partition and left the swap partition untouched. So the system is only for OS X. Why Grub haven't been overwrited? To many doubts, sorry. Grub is trying to load itself from the old kubuntu partition. If you have a DOS disk try: fdisk /mbr Maybe this will fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aixo Posted January 24, 2006 Author Share Posted January 24, 2006 I tried what you did, root@[knoppix]# fdisk /mbr Unable to open /mbr # fdisk -l shows /dev/hda1 marked bootable with id: af and system: Unknow ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJägermeister Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 I tried what you did, root@[knoppix]# fdisk /mbr Unable to open /mbr # fdisk -l shows /dev/hda1 marked bootable with id: af and system: Unknow ?? fdisk from DOS not from Linux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellomo Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 If /boot partition was separate from root partion of kubuntu and you have this partition untouched on your disk you can use a linux live cd (es. knoppix), mount /boot partition and change grub.conf accordingly to your new partition table. The entry for OSX (10.4.3) in my laptop is: title OSX86 Tiger 10.4.3 rootnoverify (hd0,1) # OSX86 on hda2 makeactive chainloader +1 If you had the /boot partition NOT separated from root one, well, you have erased all data for grub to load itself except the MBR, where grub was installed. To reinstall grub you need a ext2/3 partition to be used as /boot. If you don't want (can) make this partition i think that you have to try with other boot loader (MS , OSX ??) Hope to be of some help b. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aixo Posted January 24, 2006 Author Share Posted January 24, 2006 Thanks. An old windows98 rescue disk have done the work. Grub was installed on the mbr an tried to run my previous kubuntu installation. fdisk /mbr remove grub from the mbr and let OS X to run properly. Thank you so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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