whatever he did you can restor grub conf. just boot from live cd open terminal and go to boot dir and run command grub-install --root-diretory --recheck /dev/sdX that care of all things it install new boot loader in MBR i got there error many times and i alway solve this issue by above method Ravinder Rathi
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:00 PM, gajendra khanna <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi > >> try ubuntu live cd and reinstall grub >> error 17 means your grub boot dir is format or not found it can also cause >> by changing hard drive bus if you have more than one hard drive > > > As mentioned above its due to format he did of the 3GB disk which probably > led to change in the number allocated to individual partitions. He needs to > change those entries in the grub configuration by manually editing the said > file or the gui way. > Gajendra > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ l...@iitd community mailing list -- http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
