[SOLVED] Grub error 17 -> comes from plugged USB drive

[nigelc]

Hello all,
I have just tried to install Mageia where there used to be Mandriva.

The system has two drives. The first drive is for windows linux is on the second
The disk that I was installing it from was a live gnome distro.
The installer did create a menu.1st file, but something is not quite right.


cheers
nigelc

[barjac]

Boot from your live cd and please post the output of the following commands in a terminal:-

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su
fdisk -l
blkid


Also if you can navigate to the partition where you installed Mageia root, then post the contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst.
You need to be root to view menu.lst - to open an editor as root :-

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su -
gedit

[nigelc]

I have found the problem! When I had tried to install Mangeia there was an external USB drive plugged in. This caused all the drives to move up one. The external drive was called /dev/sda1, the second was /dev/sdb1 and the one I was trying to install was /dev/sdc1.
When It should have been /dev/sdb1.

Thanks for the help.

cheers

[barjac]

Glad you sorted it !
Welcome to Mageia!