mandi1989
April 19th, 2011, 09:41 AM
Hey, first post here, I've tried everything to solve this, been browsing the forums for the last 2 days and no solution has worked.
So I got a new netbook (Samsung n150 dated 03/2011) it had ubuntu 10.10 installed but I already use ubuntu on my macbook
so I'm trying out knoppix, I booted it from usb and ran the HD installer, it gets through all that and then installs grub ok, but when I reboot I get "Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition"
Things I already tried:
*Grub setup (grub, root (hd0,1), setup (hd0), quit) and every variation.
*I tried removing the usb and setting the HDD back to first boot in the bios and
then changing the menu.lst accordingly, still I get error 17.
Below is the information just after boot with the usb still plugged in and set as first boot in bios.
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 131 1052257 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 132 30401 243143775 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 2062 MB, 2062024704 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 250 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x285b5c9e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 250 2008093+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)Red = HDD
Green = USB
menu.lst from /media/sda2/boot/grub
default 0
timeout 30
color cyan/blue white/blue
title Knoppix
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 rootwait lang=us apm=power-off nomce libata.force=noncq tz=localtime loglevel=1 rw(The above menu.lst gets error 15 cannot find file until I unplug the usb and change to (hd0) to boot from HDD)
Please help me, really want to get this working. Thanks in advance.
--Mandi
So I got a new netbook (Samsung n150 dated 03/2011) it had ubuntu 10.10 installed but I already use ubuntu on my macbook
so I'm trying out knoppix, I booted it from usb and ran the HD installer, it gets through all that and then installs grub ok, but when I reboot I get "Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition"
Things I already tried:
*Grub setup (grub, root (hd0,1), setup (hd0), quit) and every variation.
*I tried removing the usb and setting the HDD back to first boot in the bios and
then changing the menu.lst accordingly, still I get error 17.
Below is the information just after boot with the usb still plugged in and set as first boot in bios.
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 131 1052257 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 132 30401 243143775 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 2062 MB, 2062024704 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 250 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x285b5c9e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 250 2008093+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)Red = HDD
Green = USB
menu.lst from /media/sda2/boot/grub
default 0
timeout 30
color cyan/blue white/blue
title Knoppix
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 rootwait lang=us apm=power-off nomce libata.force=noncq tz=localtime loglevel=1 rw(The above menu.lst gets error 15 cannot find file until I unplug the usb and change to (hd0) to boot from HDD)
Please help me, really want to get this working. Thanks in advance.
--Mandi