rpaskudniak
September 14th, 2009, 12:09 PM
Ubuntu 9.04
Greetings, family.
I was trying to reinstall Ubuntu (due to an unclever action on my part that messed it up) and am in the process of reinstalling it with a new partition setup. In the new setup, my XP partition is to remain where it is (as before), followed by the 4GB swap partition and that is followed by a 84GB root partition. (Dinosaur BIOS - max 4 partitions, all beginning before 128GB. Old story.) I would be sceptical of an suggestion that this is part part of the problem.
The installation was humming along until it hit 73%, whereupon it encountered an error and just died there. When I tried to boot XP thereafter, I got this error message:
GRUB loading stage 1.5
Grub loading, please wait
Error 17
No boot menu. (I am booted on the Ubuntu CD now.)
Aside from the fact that my master boot records is obviously hosed, can anyone tell me exactly the meaning of this error message? And where would I find this (besides asking like this)?
I plan to dig up the XP installation disk now to use the recover console and the fixmbr command. I suspect I need to burn a fresh copy of ubuntu. I download a fresh copy of the 9.04 .iso file yesterday.
This, after a similar installation debacle last year? Man, this guy just won't learn a lesson!
Thanks much!
-- Rasputin Paskudniak
Greetings, family.
I was trying to reinstall Ubuntu (due to an unclever action on my part that messed it up) and am in the process of reinstalling it with a new partition setup. In the new setup, my XP partition is to remain where it is (as before), followed by the 4GB swap partition and that is followed by a 84GB root partition. (Dinosaur BIOS - max 4 partitions, all beginning before 128GB. Old story.) I would be sceptical of an suggestion that this is part part of the problem.
The installation was humming along until it hit 73%, whereupon it encountered an error and just died there. When I tried to boot XP thereafter, I got this error message:
GRUB loading stage 1.5
Grub loading, please wait
Error 17
No boot menu. (I am booted on the Ubuntu CD now.)
Aside from the fact that my master boot records is obviously hosed, can anyone tell me exactly the meaning of this error message? And where would I find this (besides asking like this)?
I plan to dig up the XP installation disk now to use the recover console and the fixmbr command. I suspect I need to burn a fresh copy of ubuntu. I download a fresh copy of the 9.04 .iso file yesterday.
This, after a similar installation debacle last year? Man, this guy just won't learn a lesson!
Thanks much!
-- Rasputin Paskudniak