Originally Posted by
caljohnsmith
Usually getting a Grub error 17 when booting an OS entry in Grub's menu means that the (hdX,Y) is wrong. How about first posting:
And please identify your Slackware partition. Also, for each of the drives fdisk lists, like sda, sdb, etc, please post the output of:
Code:
sudo xxd -l 2 -p /dev/sda
So replace "sda" above with each of your drives. Note "-l" is a lowercase L, not a one. And finally, for each command above that returns "eb48", please post:
Code:
sudo xxd -s 1049 -l 2 -p /dev/sda
And replace sda with the drives that previously returned "eb48". That will greatly clarify what your setup is like.
sudo fdisk -lu
Code:
disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcab10bee
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 307339514 153669726 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 307339515 470270744 81465615 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 470270745 488392064 9060660 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda5 463539573 470270744 3365586 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 307339641 425658239 59159299+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 430847298 463539509 16346106 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 425658303 430847234 2594466 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition /dev/sda7 is Slackware while /dev/sda8 is it's swap.
Code:
/dev/sda1: eb52
2:xxd: /dev/sda2: No such file or directory
3: e9a7
5:0000
6:0000
7:0000
8:0000
and finally: NOTE: I may have found the problem, look at the attached picture.
I took space from my linux mint partition to make my slackware partitions, so now they're in /dev/sda2.
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