
Thanks

Vic
Posted 30 January 2008 - 09:22 AM
Posted 30 January 2008 - 01:01 PM
The loader requires the BOOTMGR file to be present in the root of the disc and named in all uppercase letters. Is it?
Posted 30 January 2008 - 03:49 PM
"Error 17 file not found chainloader\BOOTMRG"
Posted 30 January 2008 - 04:56 PM
...also please note that in grub4dos (as in Unix/Linux) the separator for directories is / FORWARDslash and NOT (as in DOS\NT) \ BACKslash.
jaclaz
Posted 31 January 2008 - 01:30 PM
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Thanks Jaclaz
Posted 31 January 2008 - 03:01 PM
Posted 14 February 2008 - 01:39 AM
Posted 14 February 2008 - 02:06 AM
If the problem is truly the same, so is the answer. The Grub4Dos boot loader is case sensitve and it MUST find EXACTLY what its menu.lst file tells it to look for. In addition, Grub4Dos will only accept a forward slash (/) as the directory separator; a back slash (\) is NOT acceptable.I have the SAME problem (error: 17 file not found chainloader \bootmgr)
Posted 15 February 2008 - 12:23 AM
Posted 15 February 2008 - 01:24 AM
You changed the case and used forward slash WHERE? In the menu.lst file? And WHY? Was that entry previously present in lowercase and did you determine that there was, in fact, a file named BOOTMGR in the root of that drive. It's not merely a question of some arbitrary 'correct' entry in menu.lst but of telling Grub4Dos exactly where and what to look for in order to load the selected operating system. And what it's told to look for must actually be there.Thnx for the assistance man, but changing the case ( grub> chainloader /BOOTMGR) gave me the same results. ( Error: 17 File not found) ...Used the foward slash too..heh..
Huh?! Pardon my confusion, but are you saying that the VistaPE preinstallation environment and its Grub4Dos loader has been installed onto your system's only drive?Also, I have only one drive so I doubt it being searched incorrectly...
I'm not really sure what you mean by saying that you 'never created the disc'. Are you saying that you did NOT crearte a VistaPE build but did install Grub4Dos somehow? In any case, Grub4Dos itself normally does provide several boot options, but, if Grub4Dos has been installed into the Master Boot Record (MBR) of your 'only one drive' you'd need to boot to some other device (CD/DVD/USB) in order to get rid of it and restore that main drive's MBR to something else.The worst part about this problem is that its on my laptop which uses the harddrive for a system restore- I have to press F11 for the systme restore at a certian point during booting the pc AND this problem keeps me from getting to that point so I cant, lol...and no I never created the disc...its just gives me ' error 17' right at the point before it prompts me to press F11...
So is there any other solution to this? Like to bypass or something??
Posted 15 February 2008 - 09:36 AM
Posted 15 February 2008 - 01:02 PM
If I took it any easier, I'd be asleep.Arvy, take it easy, man.
Trying to help is sometimes trying, but you must always remember that at a certain point of your life you also were a "noob", and most probably you made the same (of even worse) errors, I remember on my first PC booting from floppy, issuing a FORMAT C:\ and answering Yes two times....![]()
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