Super Grub Disk and the Mysterious Error 17
Not familiar with Error 17? It is apparently a tricky GRUB error (and not a BIOS error in my case) that carries the message, “Unable to mount partition.” I’m running my Toshiba Satellite with a dual-boot setup on a single hard drive: Vista Ultimate on the first partition and Ubuntu 8.04 and swap partition for the other two. This error conceived itself after I attempted to unsuccessfully resume my laptop out of suspend mode. It simply stopped when I opened my laptop lid. A few errors messages but nothing I don’t see periodically usually Ubuntu. So i powered it off and rebooted only to meet this error in surprise. I couldn’t load Vista or Ubuntu. I was simply stuck reading that same error message repeatedly. I tried everything I could think of including running my Ubuntu LiveCD and Puppy Linux in an attempt to use the GRUB command in a terminal to repair or rebuild itself. For some reason I couldn’t even get Puppy Linux to load to RAM which I thought was strange. I checked forums and message boards but all I could find were vague attempts to assist with a very hindering problem. No one was providing sound assistance until I saw a recommendation for Super GRUB Disk. This tool is very convenient. It was straight-forward: Load the iso (400 KB) to a CD and reboot. It has two modes, boot with assistance or just boot. I’ll just summarize because this CD and its included on-screen instructions are for complete beginners.
- I attempted to get it to fix my GRUB file. No luck
- I attempted to boot straight into Ubuntu. “File not found.”
- I told it to fix my Windows MBR and it gave a successful message.
I rebooted and it goes straight into Windows. My work flow is still flowing thanks to that tool I found that allows me to mount my Linux partition through Windows (see my last post: http://deeperdatait.com/?p=145). As soon as I figure out how to restore my GRUB menu (without reinstalling Ubuntu), I will post the how to here. Go to www.supergrubdisk.org for the latest version and more tutorials.
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