ihabelnaccash
August 12th, 2009, 01:18 AM
I have an older Dell Inspiron 8000 PIII 1000, 512 Mb RAM. I was running XP pro (upgraded from Win2000Pro. Initially I Installed a dual boot of Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop edition from here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
The Dual boot was to see how well everything would run (and it ran great!) The only hitch was bootng off the CD didnt work until I installed Grub through windows IIRC.Once I determined that everything was working OK - screen/ audio/ etc- I backed up my photo's and audio files from the XP side and tried to reinstal Ubuntu 9.04 *using the whole disk*
The install started OK , but then while it was writing to disk it took a power hit and the laptop powered down. At this point I can still get into the BIOS and still have the laptop set to boot off of the CD rom first- figuring I would just start the install again, but now everytime it gets out of the POST it says :
'Grub loading
error 17'
then it just hangs...
For whatever reson now despite the BIOS saying to check the CD drive first - it still seems to be going to my HDD. My thoughts for tonights attempt after wor would be to re burn another copy of Ubuntu to see if the CD is damaged (but it didnt work with an XP disk either, and I may have to do some serious digging to find the original y2k disks) If that doesn't work then I can take the hard drive out, reformat using a usb case, and then put it back into thte laptop and try a fresh install again...
Am I overlooking something obvious? Ive done some searching through the archives here and most solutions seem to be assuming I can get to boot off of the cd (which doesnt seem to eb working)
Thanks for any help in advance...
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
The Dual boot was to see how well everything would run (and it ran great!) The only hitch was bootng off the CD didnt work until I installed Grub through windows IIRC.Once I determined that everything was working OK - screen/ audio/ etc- I backed up my photo's and audio files from the XP side and tried to reinstal Ubuntu 9.04 *using the whole disk*
The install started OK , but then while it was writing to disk it took a power hit and the laptop powered down. At this point I can still get into the BIOS and still have the laptop set to boot off of the CD rom first- figuring I would just start the install again, but now everytime it gets out of the POST it says :
'Grub loading
error 17'
then it just hangs...
For whatever reson now despite the BIOS saying to check the CD drive first - it still seems to be going to my HDD. My thoughts for tonights attempt after wor would be to re burn another copy of Ubuntu to see if the CD is damaged (but it didnt work with an XP disk either, and I may have to do some serious digging to find the original y2k disks) If that doesn't work then I can take the hard drive out, reformat using a usb case, and then put it back into thte laptop and try a fresh install again...
Am I overlooking something obvious? Ive done some searching through the archives here and most solutions seem to be assuming I can get to boot off of the cd (which doesnt seem to eb working)
Thanks for any help in advance...