Grub rescue?

[Stockslager1]

i am brand new to ubuntu, and know next to nothing about computers. so when i had an old laptop die, i decided to try and put a new OS on it. and thus i downloaded ubuntu 10.04, put it on a 8gb drive, and downloaded it unto my laptop. when i try to boot, it tells me "error: d=hd0,1 cannot get C/H/S values.
grub rescue>"
i have no idea what is happening or why (besides it can't find something?) does anyone have any helpful ideas?

[vitothegreat]

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...device-809412/

[Stockslager1]

ah well, thank you. though that didn't help specifically, it got me thinking, and i had the wrong drive selected to boot from, so thank you

[vitothegreat]

It's normal to screw up your first installations of Linux, that's where the learning begins. I remember myself reinstalling Ubuntu countless times because of some single tiny mistake. From now on Google search and Linux communities should be your best friends in terms of Linux computing.