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Grub 1.5 Loading Error 17

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I currently have 3 hard drives installed in my system. One 500 GB that I have Windows 7 Beta 1 installed on, a 250 GB that I use for downloads, music, and pictures, and another 250 GB that I installed Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit on. I reformatted the entire hard drive before I installed Ubuntu on it but when I rebooted it after the install it would show GRUB 1.5 loading... and then give me Error 17 and nothing would happen. I've tried booting from both my Windows drive and my Ubuntu drive but the Windows drive gives me the GRUB error and nothing happens when I try to boot from the Ubuntu drive. Please help!

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Gaurav Nagar (nagar-gaurav) said : 		#1

Did you change your type of hard drive or format of hard drive as ext3 and what mount point you gave???
or rather you might have deleted or formatted the ubuntu drives from windows disk manager???

please reply to these

Gaurav Nagar

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Gaurav Nagar (nagar-gaurav) said : 		#2

Did you change your type of hard drive or format of hard drive as ext3 and what mount point you gave???
or rather you might have deleted or formatted the ubuntu drives from windows disk manager???

please reply to these

Gaurav Nagar

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Doug (bikeracer4487) said : 		#3

The hard drive was formatted as ext3 from the LiveCD and since GRUB isn't working, I haven't been able to boot into Windows OR ubuntu since I installed it. I'm currently using a secondary computer.

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Doug (bikeracer4487) said : 		#4

In case this helps, my configuration is as follows:

XFX nVidia 780i SLI mobo
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
4GB DDR2
2x nVidia 8800GT's (512MB) in SLI
500 GB SATA drive (NTFS)
250 GB SATA dirve (NTFS)
250 GB SATA drive (ext3)

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nhasian (nhasian) said : 		#5

please give us the output of the following commands.

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:

sudo fdisk -l

cat /etc/fstab

blkid

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Doug (bikeracer4487) said : 		#6

sudo fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf36b3f78

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 26 204800 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 26 60802 488179712 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6aa8cd0f

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 30402 244196352 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdc: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000a7f3e

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 14582 117129883+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 29165 30401 9936202+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdc5 29165 30401 9936171 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdd: 8029 MB, 8029470208 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 976 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 1 976 7839698 b W95 FAT32

Disk /dev/sde: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa4b57300

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sde1 1 60801 488384001 7 HPFS/NTFS

cat /etc/ftsb:

aufs / aufs rw 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/sdc5 swap swap defaults 0 0

blkid:
/dev/sdd1: LABEL="CRUZER 8GB" UUID="52D4-0D11" TYPE="vfat"

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Doug (bikeracer4487) said : 		#7

Thank you for trying to help, but after fooling around with sudo grub and by booting to the hard disk ubuntu was installed on I was able to get ubuntu to load properly but it still would not load Windows 7, so I'm afraid I'm giving up on Ubuntu.