Error 17 Cannot Mount Selected Partition Gentoo
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systemHardwareSoftwareDesktopServer & SecurityProject & Community Tools What links hereRelated changesSpecial pagesPrintable versionPermanent linkPage informationBrowse properties User Create accountLog in Toggle navigation PageDiscussion View source more History GRUB Error Reference From Gentoo Wiki Jump to: navigation, search The objective of this article is to list grub error 17 cannot mount selected partition problems and errors that may occur in certain situations when using the GRUB Legacy bootloader.
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All these solutions have been acquired through the cooperation of users on the Gentoo Forums. Contents 1 Starting notes 1.1 Acknowledgements 1.2 Disclaimer warning 2 GRUB loading, please wait... 2.1 Situation 2.2 Solution 3 GRUB Error 12 3.1 Situation 3.2 Solution 4 GRUB error 15 4.1 Situation 4.2 Solution - Initial configuration 4.3 Solution - Booting an entry 5 GRUB error 17 5.1 Situation 5.2 Solution 6 GRUB error 18 6.1 Situation 6.2 Solution 7 GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB ... 7.1 Situation 7.2 Solution 8 Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time 8.1 Situation 8.2 Solution 9 When installing GRUB, it just hangs 9.1 Situation 9.2 Solution 10 Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel 10.1 Situation 10.2 Solution 11 GRUB just shows a GRUB prompt 11.1 Situation 11.2 Solution 12 Could not find device for /boot/boot: not found or not a block device 12.1 Situation 12.2 Solution 13 The system reboots after hitting return at the GRUB menu 13.1 Situation 13.2 Solution 14 After hitting the Enter (Return) key at the GRUB menu, the screen blanks out 14.1 Situation 14.2 Solution 15 Missing GRUB image 15.1 Situation 15.2 Solution 16 Failing To boot Windows from a second hard drive 16.1 Situation 16.2 Solution 17 GRUB segfaults when trying to install 17.1 Situation 17.2 Solution Starting notes Acknowledgements Many thanks to Earthwings, penetrode, loyaltonone, pilla, airhead, nephros, yamakawa and all the others for the suggestions on the original thread. Disclaimer warning The examples provided are just examples. Be sure to change partition numbers and the like according to the specific systems specs. Follow the solutions provided by this document at the readers own risk. GRUB loading, please wait... Situation GRUB loading stage 1.5 GRUB loading, please wait... After this message, the system stops. If attempting to boot the system using a GRUB floppy, the problem disappears. Solution According to The_Bell, changing the boot order in the BIOS can solve the problem. Tell the BIOS to not boot from the floppy first. [1] took hard disks off the system one-by-one until found out the problem was caused by the SiI351
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