GRUB ERROR 17 help!!!!

[anthony baldwin]

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.
Have a look here:
http://justlinux.com/forum/showpost.php?p=869980&postcount=6
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1669
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=442945
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/SuperGrubDiskPage.html#17
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/grub-error-17-after-xp-ubuntu-dual-install-582759/

See if some of that stuff helps.

Of course, the fact that a quick googling of this issue produces so many 
results (I googled "grub error 17 ubuntu" and got something like 98,000 
results)  is unsettling, in and of itself.
Perhaps we should be asking ourselves why this error (grub error 17) is 
coming up so frequently, and do something to amend the issue, so we 
don't see this question so often.
Not that I would have a clue how to solve it...I haven't had a dual-boot 
with Windows in forever (although about a year and a half ago I had a 
dual-boot Ubuntu-PCLinuxOS machine, and, now that I recall, also 
encountered the grub error 17 until I fixed grub with the PCLOS livecd).

/tony

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