Hi,
I'm new here so where would I post a question about installing ubuntu.

I have run the install to the end, rebooted and came up with 'GRUB Loading, Please wait... Error 17.
This went onto a slave drive (which has XP) beside the master which has 98. It looks like all the partitioning went ok (to me, anyway) but when I rebooted it came up with that statement and hung.
Thanks. mmm. Maybe there's a better one to try out the Linux type system.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...splay.php?f=63

Try the above link, which leads to the Ubuntu area. From the main page of LQ, you can see all the forum sections; Ubuntu is a subsection of "Linux Distributions". Before posting, do a little bit of searching first -- I am SURE that GRUB Error 17 is mentioned around here a lot. It's very common. Off the top of my head, I *think* it means that GRUB cannot find the kernel image it's looking for, but don't quote me-- I don't use GRUB

Best of success!

Error 17 means that GRUB doesn't recognize the filesystem - in other words, it's very likely that it is looking in the wrong place. When GRUB comes up, select the top Ubuntu line, press e and select the (hdx,x) line. Does it look as if it is pointing to the correct drive/partition? If unsure, press e again, remove the closing x) and use the tab to find out how the drive in question is partitioned. If the scheme looks different from what you had expected, GRUB must be accessing the wrong drive. If so remove x,x) and replace with the proper values.

Oh, and one more thing: is that an old computer? If so, it may be unable to reach a /boot partition if it is located too far from the start of the drive.