Re: Grub error 17 after fresh install
Your SATA sockets have nothing to do with it.
What matters is how you have set the order of the drives in your BIOS setup.
Kubuntu, to bein partition (hd0,0), should be the on first-to-boot drive as set in BIOS boot order among the hard drives (after your CD/DVD drive).
If you see the boot menu come up, after turning on the PC, press the "c" key to get a grub> prompt. Or, start up the Kubuntu Live CD, type sudo grub to get the grub> prompt. Then use the geometry command to see how BIOS sees your drives (GRUB sees your drives the same way BIOS sees your drives; the drive that the PC ACTUALLY boots from right this second is always seen as drive hd0 by BIOS and by GRUB).
Now, type geometry then space then left parenthesis ( then hd then press the TAB key:
grub> geometry (hd<Press TAB key now>
That returns a list of drives as seen by BIOS.
Explore each one using geometry:
grub> geometry (hd0)
grub> geometry (hd1)
grub> geometry (hd2)
See what is where on your drives. Is Kubuntu on hd0 as we think it should be?
The root -- setup -- quit we did can not and does not fail to install GRUB if you've correctly specified the drives. (After doing that, sometimes worst case scenario, you might have to edit the main Kubuntu /boot/grub/menu.lst to be sure the (hdx,y)'s are correct, but in your case, there should be no problems since you only have one bootable drive with one OS.)
Your SATA sockets have nothing to do with it.
What matters is how you have set the order of the drives in your BIOS setup.
Kubuntu, to bein partition (hd0,0), should be the on first-to-boot drive as set in BIOS boot order among the hard drives (after your CD/DVD drive).
If you see the boot menu come up, after turning on the PC, press the "c" key to get a grub> prompt. Or, start up the Kubuntu Live CD, type sudo grub to get the grub> prompt. Then use the geometry command to see how BIOS sees your drives (GRUB sees your drives the same way BIOS sees your drives; the drive that the PC ACTUALLY boots from right this second is always seen as drive hd0 by BIOS and by GRUB).
Now, type geometry then space then left parenthesis ( then hd then press the TAB key:
grub> geometry (hd<Press TAB key now>
That returns a list of drives as seen by BIOS.
Explore each one using geometry:
grub> geometry (hd0)
grub> geometry (hd1)
grub> geometry (hd2)
See what is where on your drives. Is Kubuntu on hd0 as we think it should be?
The root -- setup -- quit we did can not and does not fail to install GRUB if you've correctly specified the drives. (After doing that, sometimes worst case scenario, you might have to edit the main Kubuntu /boot/grub/menu.lst to be sure the (hdx,y)'s are correct, but in your case, there should be no problems since you only have one bootable drive with one OS.)
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