[Wolves] was (no subject) I need help

[chris procter]

--- Dick Turpin <highwayman.turpin at gmail.com> wrote:
>Grub appears to start working I get Stage 1.5. (Not
>seen that one
>before) then I get Error 17 I'll have to find out
what >that means unless anyone knows?

If at first you dont succeed google.
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Troubleshooting

Error numbers:
17 : Cannot mount selected partition: This error is
returned if the partition requested exists, but the
filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB.
18 : Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by
BIOS: This error is returned when a read is attempted
at a linear block address beyond the end of the BIOS
translated area. This generally happens if your disk
is larger than the BIOS can handle (512MB for (E)IDE
disks on older machines or larger than 8GB in
general). 

This might explain a lot of the io errors you've been
having, if the system can't see the whole disk it may
see a partial filesystem which it would think is
corrupt. If so then running fsck on the disk should
report the filesystem as being larger then the disk.

Have you put a large disk in an old machine or fiddled
with the bios settings so it wouldn't deal with large
disks or anything like that. If the repair disk
doesn't work and you're happy its configured properly
then a bios problem is the next option.

The bios loads grub stage 1.5, stage 1.5 understands
enough about the filesystem (reiserfs?) to find
stage2, stage 2 loads the operating system.

chris



	
	
		
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