Grub Error 17

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 28 March 2006 13:02, Luca Manganelli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I encountered this problem with GRUB installing Ubuntu 5.10 on a
> Celeron 500Mhz machine with Windows 98SE (FAT32). I made a second
> partition (4GB).
>
> I installed ubuntu in server mode (by typing "server" at cd boot).
> But when it's on "GRUB" step, it installs it.
>
> When I reboot, the GRUB gives me an 17 error and refuses to
> continue.
>
> I watched many thread in ubuntuforums.org but none of them helped
> me.

This usually means that grub can find a partition but can;t read it. 
Most often caused by an incorrect root hd(x,y) statement

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Alan McKinnon
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