Error 17

[jawadahmed]

I have installed ubuntu 8.04 along with my old windows xp.
I get to boot into grub but when i select ubuntu from there i get error 17
I have searched these forums and got many solutions, tried them but unfortunately no solution helped me.
I really like to use ubuntu but its pushing me away (9.04 had i/o error after completion of setup and removal of tray and now 8.04 have error 17)

Can anyone please help me solve the error 17 please. I have also modified device.map and dont know how to make it to previous version.

Here is my PC info.
Intel, 2 hard disks, 1 sata
Installed 8.04 from usb disk.
windows xp and ubuntu on 2nd hard disk.

Here is info from sudo fdisk -lu

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0a4ba9cb

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 64 102178085 51089011 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 102178086 121184738 9503326+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 121184763 177810808 28313023 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda4 177810815 234440999 28315092+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda5 102178110 121184738 9503314+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x74401d35

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 4524 30722483 15358980 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb2 50252694 625142383 287444845 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb3 30722484 50252591 9765054 83 Linux
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb5 205703968 625142383 209719208 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb6 50252696 54156803 1952054 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdc: 3511 MB, 3511681024 bytes
109 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1014 cylinders, total 6858752 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb0bcd68e

This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 ? 3223366781 3470046704 123339962 78 Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(518, 102, 15) logical=(476970, 56, 50)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(743, 0, 62) logical=(513472, 47, 15)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdc2 ? 432871117 1208554935 387841909+ 10 OPUS
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(205, 7, 0) logical=(64053, 15, 14)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(920, 235, 50) logical=(178833, 24, 34)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdc3 ? 1869562563 3788792630 959615034 8b Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(260, 125, 54) logical=(276644, 38, 56)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(893, 46, 60) logical=(560638, 16, 35)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdc4 ? 1347420160 1355743253 4161547 a OS/2 Boot Manager
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(269, 111, 50) logical=(199381, 54, 15)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(0, 0, 0) logical=(200613, 9, 42)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition table entries are not in disk orderThese are my hd1 (second hard disk) partitions

setup (hd1,
Possible partitions are:
Partition num: 0, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
Partition num: 2, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
Partition num: 4, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
Partition num: 5, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82
If any one solve this, i would be his fan :(

[dstew]

When you get the error 17 message, is there any text associated with it? That is, does it just say "error 17" and lock, or does it say "error 17, cannot mount selected partition"? If you get no text, it is probably a grub stage 1.5 error, and we will need to re-install the boot loader. If there is text with it, it might only be a mis-configuration, and that is easier to fix.

[stlsaint]

Sounds like you may need to reinstall grub. please see here for explanation: Restore Grub (http://doc.gwos.org/core:grub:restore).