[oclug] Dual boot problem

[Dumitru Ciobanu]

Check this link it may help you fix your problem.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=442945

Cheers,

Dumitru

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Croombe F. Pensom <croombefp at sympatico.ca>
wrote:

> I just purchased an IBM Think Center with Windoze XP Professional
> preloaded.
>
> I added another hard drive and then tried installing : Fedora 8, SuSE
> 10.2, Mint and Ubuntu one by one, always onto the second drive.  ALL
> found the Windoze partition and added it to the boot loader (grub).
> HOWEVER, on EVERY SINGLE INSTALL when I reboot after the installation I
> only get grub with either just the prompt :
> GRUB>
> or
>
> GRUB>
>
> Error 17
>
> In neither case can I either do anything or get  into either Linux or
> Windoze.
>
> Clearly, there is something I am doing incorrectly or else Windoze XP
> Professional somehow prevents me from installing Linux.
>
> Can anyone offer me any advice as to how to get over this problem and
> make a dual boot system and/or get back into Windoze.
> Thanks
> CroombeFP
>
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