Dapper wont boot

[Thomas Beckett]

On 1/27/06, Matic Ahacic <matic.ahacic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dont say that don't work. PLease I have dapper on hdb1 and hd(0,0) is
> only thing that works with me. Please do try
>

Well in that case it sounds like you have told your bios to boot from
the second hard disk instead of the first.
I still tried your suggestion:
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root hd(0,0)

Error 11: Unrecognized device string
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hd(0,0) is malformed. it should be (hd0,0) if anything so i tried that:

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root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-12-386 root=/dev/hdb3 ro quiet splash
Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition
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0x7 is an ntfs partition and (hd0,0) my first partition on my first
disk is windowsXP (ntfs)

besides as stated in my bug report:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/grub/+bug/6550
and in my earlier emails, chrooting into the installation and
installing the earlier kernel allows me to boot fine. - with root
(hd1,2) as it should be.

Is there anything in the first part of booting that could stop it from
ncompressing the kernel image?