Comments on: Grub Error 17

By: installed windows xp on linux computer = error 17 - Page 2

installed windows xp on linux computer = error 17 - Page 2 — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:14:24 +0000

[...] have now tried this guide: http://www.3till7.net/2007/10/25/grub-error-17/ and used damn small linux as this guide mentions, result: in stead of "error 17" it is [...]

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 05:50:36 +0000

Thanks. This is exactly what I needed.

By: KAREN WEATHERS

KAREN WEATHERS — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:59:57 +0000

Here’s a good one. Loaded Linux Kubuntu last night on a seperate hard drive. But had 2 others hooked up. 1 had vista swagate 1.5 TB, 2 had WINXP WestDigi 80 gig, 3 Kubuntu IBM 16 gig. Now I did a full install to the IBM of Kubuntu. Not even near the Seafate HDD and i have the GRUB error 17 thing on the seagate HDD with Vista loaded. Now I can not get into
Vista. So tell me, how do I fix !THAT! why don’t ya…. I am going to try and make a boot disk for Vista from WINXP drive via the back door and see if that works. But if anyone has any ideas PALeeeease HEEELP!!

By: Anuj

Anuj — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:27:41 +0000

when i type t command …it shows
No partition is defined yet!
what shall i do now??

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:31:44 +0000

Thank you for taking the time to post this info. It was extremely helpful! It worked!

By: firmit

firmit — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:17:46 +0000

Thank you – thank you – thank you! :)
This did it for me!

By: blokeley

blokeley — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:52:35 +0000

My eee 1000 had ubuntu-eee installed did an auto-update then went into sleep mode because I left it. I couldn’t wake it so had to kill the power. After that I got grub error 17.

Your instructions helped me fix it. My /dev/sda was corrupted and showing 2 partitions. I deleted /dev/sda2 and changed the type of /dev/sda1 to Linux (83). It then booted fine. Thank you so much. You saved my bricked machine!

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:06:39 +0000

Thank you so much! This tip saved my computer… I’ll never mess with the
‘hide’ option in Grub again.

Now if only I could get Windows to stop trying to format my Ubuntu partition…

By: Muthii’s blog » Blog Archive » Grub Error 17

Muthii’s blog » Blog Archive » Grub Error 17 — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:25:07 +0000

[...] grub started loading then stopped giving me the Error 17. I was able to resolve it after checking this site [...]

By: sam

sam — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:58:41 +0000

Thanks Worked great. I used hide on a linux partition trying to dual boot. Now am ok.

By: destino

destino — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:28:08 +0000

Thanks! Worked perfectly!

By: ingis

ingis — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:51:53 +0000

I found some bad news about it in: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/203537
I got this error after trying to suspend computer.

By: stephen

stephen — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:54:17 +0000

When I boot to Linux (single boot drive, so that’s my only option), I get GRUB error 17. However, I followed these instructions and opened the device table, but the boot device was marked as 83 before I modified anything. So it recognized itself as Linux, but it kept giving me Error 17.

Any ideas?

By: LilyAyanami

LilyAyanami — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:23:17 +0000

I had installed Winders recently onto my Linux system and was trying to set up Grub for dual-boot before ending up with this problem. This totally fixed my problem. Thank you!

By: Aldo

Aldo — Mon, 19 May 2008 05:57:12 +0000

Amazing! Finally I can boot again =) .
I’ve been wondering where this amoeba thing came from.

Great Stuff. Thanksx1000