Grub runs upto stage 1.5 then gives error 17

Hi all, I have one 80 GB HDD which has Windows XPSP2 (NTFS based) Ubuntu 6.06 upgraded to Ubuntu 6.10 (ext2). It had GNU GRUB 0.97 running underneath it all. Everything was running fine suddenly yesterday it gave me error 17. Looking in Grub Legacy came to know tht error 17 means :-

Fallback for SATA and IDE drives when booting from a CD?

I posted the following on grub-devel before I realized that this was the better list for it... We are booting from a CD which needs to forward to a bootable hard drive (if possible). The hard drive might be SATA, might be IDE. My current menu.lst looks something like this:

[RFE] Installing grub into an XFS partition

Please cc: me, I am not subscribed to bug-grub. As we all know, you cannot install grub into an XFS partition because the XFS superblock is in sector 0 of the partition. grub-install must not overwrite sector 0 which means that you cannot use 'chainloader +1' to boot a secondary grub menu from

Re: Doesn't boot Linux on SATA, but OpenBSD

So, when I root (hd0,1,a) followed by chainloader +1, it boots to OpenBSD splendidly. But root (hd0,0) [ext2 filesystem], makeactive, kernel vmliuz--- ro root=/dev/sda6, initrd ..., boot dies with pivot_root ... cannot open /dev/console ... Kernel panic. Yes, /dev/sda6 is '/' What is it that I