Grub error 17

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I’m a Windows 7 user attempting to install openSUSE in a partition on a seperate hard disk, and am receiving grub error 17 on install.

My windows partition is sdb1, and my (hopeful) openSUSE partition is sdc2.

I am so close to giving up, I’ve had nothing but hassle and the **** thing isn’t even installed yet.

When I attempt to redefine the grub config after receiving the error message, there are no mounted drives in my “/dev/” folder to point to, nor can I find the kernel image or RAM disk in my “/boot/” folder.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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That partition information is simply not sufficient. Ideally we need the output of: fdisk -l
You could get that with a Live CD like Parted Magic
Using Parted Magic an Introduction - openSUSE Forums

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Apologies for the amateurish method, but it was the fasted I could think of. Here’s a picture of the screen output.http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b370/Fowlet/fdisk.jpg

Thanks for your help so far.

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I’ll be crashing off to bed soon, so don’t think I dropped off the face of the planet.

What is on sda1?
File system SFS? and the same at sdc?

My option here would be making sdc the 1st boot device in BIOS and making sure you use the switcher fro grub to go to the MBR of sdc!
http://public.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pySJKZ98p_IQZ2BwkwG0stF5Wry1svxNdFI01h5sEnS7l5b0-CwJsj3UEthYAt5rUNolFJm_YajUgOhF6jbXb0Q/pic23-MBR%20switch.png

We may have to edit the boot menu that SUSE puts in there for windows, but just don’t worry about it. Let’s get suse up and running.

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sda1 is half of a windows-managed RAID drive.

sdc1 is the other half, is SFS “special file system”?

I don’t fully understand what you’re suggesting. On attempting to emulate the summary on that screenshot, I now get error 22, partition not found.

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I’m getting the sense that this problem is revolving around the windows-managed raid between sda and sdc. I get a warning about the installer not being able to edit partitions on sdc.

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Ok, first problem resolved (or worked around); I just shrunk a partition on my largest drive to make a 30GB partition for openSUSE, and it installed and boots fine.

Next problem, I’m installing a driver via make install, and it seems I don’t have the kernel source code with which to run make. Tells me that /lib/modules/2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop/build doesn’t exist. I realise it’s a link, but the link doesn’t lead anywhere either. All I can find on the CD is an RPM of the kernel.

Sorry for my general linux fail…

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What i needed to do for my kernel issues was to go into yast-install software- under package groups install all the packages under the kernel group. It might or might not work for you though.

Don’t worry about it when i started out, i had about 20 threads, and now even after i started, i still have questions.:wink:

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I’m afraid I can’t advise you any further. I know nothing of all that windows stuff.:slight_smile: