Ubuntu Dual Boot XP = Grub Error 17

bcairns

Today I went to the local computer store and got the Comptia Linux+ book and a 1 terrabyte harddrive.

My existing system is XP SP2, with 3 drives totalling 1.5 tb space - I wanted to dualboot Ubuntu to help study for this exam and put Ubuntu on the New 1 tb disk (wow 2.5 tb space total).

After the install I rebooted, and got a error:

Grub Error 17

Computer would not boot.

Just thought I would save some poor soul a bit of a headache ...to fix the issue:

Go into your BIOS, turn off quick boot - this will force your computer to reload all the hardware settings and re-read the MBR. Make sure the disk with the MBR is selected as the first startup device.

Save settings and reboot.

Works great I can dual boot Ubuntu and XP.

As a side note XP must be installed first or it will overwrite the MBR and not let Grub start Linux

disi

if you want to install XP after Linux, you can also boot into a livecd and chroot into your linux. Then just install grub into the mbr again.