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11-Jan-2007, 02:59 PM #1
re installation of ubuntu
when i try to install ubuntu on a clean hard drive that also has been partitioned, it just shows

this

GRUB Loading

Error 17

how can i fix this? the version of ubuntu im installing is 6.06
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11-Jan-2007, 06:24 PM #2
At what point during the installation are you getting this error message?
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12-Jan-2007, 04:48 AM #3
Error 17 is "can't mount the selected partition. If this is the first meesage then the installer has told Grub the wrong partition to pick up the kernel.

If a Linux has bugs its installer normally has the lion's share.

We need the output of terminal "fdisk -l" as well as the /boot/grub/menu.lst to advise further.

In the mean time you can gain access to Ubuntu by any Live CD (Task H1 and H2 of the last link of my signature refers)
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