Hi, On 12/17/05, All Nicks Are Taken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gave me error 17 - I needed to boot up with my Debian CD, delete the new > partition and then reboot again.
According to Grub docs, error 17 refers to: 17 : Cannot mount selected partition This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB. > What do I need to do in order to prevent this? when I was using lilo, I just > ran `lilo` after making a change to the partition table or kernel, and it was > ok. I assume there is some parallel action needed to be done in grub, but > what would it be ? > Since you didn't give the *exact* partition details, I'll take your description of "every partition got incremented by 1". If this is the case, then you were supposed to edit the menu.lst file and change the device name for the kernel. For example, if the menu.lst had an entry (before making changes to partition table) similar to: title My kernel root (hd0,0) .... then you need to update this entry (after making changes to the partition table) as: title My kernel root (hd0,1) .... I think this can be automated by running the 'update-grub' command. This is just my thought, I've never done this kinda stuff and never had a chance to run update-grub after making changes to the partition table. Someone else in the list who has more experience with Grub will be able to throw more light on this. Hope this helps. Srinidhi.