[gaza14]

hey i just installed windows but partitioned 20gb on the hard drive and installed ubuntu on the partitioned space. throught the installation there was no problems but when i restarted my computer while it was starting up it comes up with "ERROR 17" and stops starting up.

cheers.

[Cew27]

you may need to re-install grub follow these steps
boot the ubuntu live cd, go to terminal and type
sudo grub
this will get you a grub prompt at this promt type

 find /boot/grub/stage1

This will return a location. If you have more than one, select the installation that you want to provide the grub files.
Next, THIS IS IMPORTANT, whatever was returned for the find command use it in the next line (you are still at grub>. when you enter the next 3 commands)

 root (hd?,?)

Again use the value from the find command i.e. if find returned (hd0,1) then you would enter root (hd0,1)

now type this

  setup (hd0)

and quit and you are ready to go and by quit i mean type

  quit

into terminal
now grub will be re-installed and if you need help configuring it i can instruct you

[gaza14]

nope still has error 17 after that

[Mike0001]

What age was the computer? On some older models, if the boot files are too far down a large drive they will be inaccessible to the BIOS.

[serverguy]

Originally Posted by Mike0001 What age was the computer? On some older models, if the boot files are too far down a large drive they will be inaccessible to the BIOS.

I don't think he will be replying