[ELECTRON] GRUB error 17 [WAS: Re: [ELECTRON_MEMBERS] Reminder - City Stroll - 7 March]

[Simon Yuill]

Hi Joseph,

Absolutely fine to send in questions like this.

You might find this helpful:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=442945

best wishes
Si


PS - I'm probably guilty of not doing this myself, but when sending in
emails on a new topic it's a good idea to give it an appropriate subject
title, that way it is easier for people to look back and find the
message in their mail browser or the list archives.


Seb Bacon wrote:
> Don't know that error, but is it an option to boot off USB?
> 
> seb
> 
> 2009/3/12 Joseph Kerr <jsphkrr at gmail.com>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I hope this is the correct email address and if you accept these types
>> of emails. Has anyone ever had the GRUB error 17 problem? I have a
>> presario R3000 with a number of partitions, XP, Ubuntu, Dreamlinux and
>> Vector Linux. Ubuntu is the one I use all the time. I recently removed
>> Mepis from a partition and increased the Ubuntu partition size. When I
>> boot into GRUB I get the error 17 message. The problem is that I do
>> not have a working cd-rom drive so I cannot use the live cd. I would
>> like to get past error 17 to the GRUB prompt and see if I can fix the
>> problem. Any suggestion would be great. Thanks.
>>
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