<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Verdana } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Herve, I am sorry as kost of my questions on the forum go astray!!!!! when I boot from the backup disk it just continually says gub, but this was a clonned copy thru ghost 3 of the main xp pro?? do I do this $ df /boot when in K and with just my xp pro drive and linux drive????? ray <HR id=stopSpelling> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:04:04 +0100 Subject: Re: re grub error 17 From: Herve@lucidia.net To: kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Hello Ray, Re-posting to the list in case it might help others... was sent to personal e-mail. I - Booting with the backup disks on If your system boots ok with the backups off and does not when they're on, then my guess is that you have two grubs: * one on the main hard drive (the one you want) * at least one on the backups (the one[s] you don't) and that your system boots by default from the backup. This, as you probably know, can be changed in the BIOS settings, under the boot section (its location depends on your BIOS). II - Error 17 The reason why grub gives error 17 is due to the difference between the partition layout in the backup disk[s] and the original disk. For example, Linux's boot partition maybe on partition /dev/sda3 on the original disk and /dev/sda1 on the backup disk[s]. To find out your boot partition, type this: $ df /boot which gives me (/boot is not a separate partition on my laptop - yet): /dev/sda8 52506748 3838592 46000968 8% / I hope this can help a bit. Do not hesitate to ask again if I can be of help. Hervé <hr />Download free emoticons today! <a href='http://livelife.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=669758 ' target='_new'>Holiday cheer from Messenger.</a></body> </html>