GRUB ERROR 17 help!!!!

[sdavmor]

Jerry Houston wrote:
> On Friday 08 May 2009 21:52:35 anthony baldwin wrote:
>> John Heinen wrote:
>>> Computer with wind xp and dreamlinux  stalled with the message 
>>> GRUB LOADING PLEASE WAIT   error 17,  I have tried to restart
>>> with windows and dreamlinux and puppy and others,  have checked
>>> and checked many many treads but can't find anything to get
>>> the computer going?
>> Seems like this question comes up a lot. Google is your friend. 
>> http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/SuperGrubDiskPage.html#17
> 
> +1 on the Super GRUB Disk!
> 
> I've been having similar problems with a GRUB that Ubuntu
> installed, on a machine that already had SuSE and Vista on it
> (three separate drives).  The loader that Ubuntu installed included
> items for the other systems, but the Vista boot just ended up with
> errors.
> 
> One brief session with Super GRUB Disk sorted everything out, quite
> painlessly, and almost automatically.

+1 on Super Grub.  It's one of those I keep in my CD bag-of-tricks.
A very useful tool.
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