Hi all,i have the following problem:i have multiboot Vista/Kubuntu linux with grub installed. Vista boots alright, but when i select Kubuntu it shows the following error: "error 17: cannot mount selected partition". I checked the ubuntu forums and i tried some tricks messing with grub...but without success. Yesterday everything was fine, but i preinstalled vista, so the bootloader is gone. Messing around with grub i managed to come to boot menu. Vista boots fine now...but when i select from the boot menu to boot into kubuntu it shows the error 17. Any clues? Thanks.

A clue. "Ok, I have it working.. Seems I didn't take notice that when I installed Windows on my SATA drives that I needed to put a small partition on the ide drives in order for Windows to install.. I thought it was because Windows didn't like it's boot files on a RAID drive.. Well it seems (in my case anyhow) that this Western Digital RAID/SATA controller does not boot on my system.. so installing grub made no differance because it would not boot the system. I know, it sounds confusing as hell.. but I had to make a small /boot partition on an ide drive and *Presto it worked. So.. if you have a PCI SATA/RAID controller and no matter what you do.. you recieve "Error 17" ... try to put a /boot partition on an ide drive. Also I tried in my bios to tell the system to boot off of SCSI, but that wasn't happening either. So either way, on this mobo (Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe) I had to use ide. Why you might ask didn't I use the onboard SATA controller? Well for me.. with that SATA controller, I was plagued with tons of lockups and Irq 11 being disabled on bootup.. but the WD card it works great.. I have the Asus bios 1009 installed, and all efforts to install a newer bios where unfruitful to say the least.. Also I must thank the fellas in the #grub channel on irc for pointing me in the right direction.. they were very polite and helpful, and I wouldn't be back home in Linux on my main rig now it it were not for them. Thank you everyone Sincerely, TriKster Abacus " I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.