Istanbul_Lfc

Hi,

i have a 72GB Master (Windows XP Home)
and a 40GB Slave (No OS)

I installed Ubuntu 7.10 with live CD, it was going well. I created a new partition on the slave as ext3 format (10GB) and a swap partition(256 mb). The ext3 with a "/" mount point.

Here is how it looks on the installer.

/dev/sda

/dev/sda2 NTFS (Windows XP)

/dev/sdb

/dev/sdb1 ext3
/dev/sdb2 swap

(I think that was it, im just remembering from memory)

It finished copying the files and when it came to configuring the boot loader it was set as default to (hd0). I thought it was the hardrive my XP was on and i didn't want to tamper with the bootloader so i changed it to (hd1) thinking it load from my slave.

I then rebooted and changed my hard disk priority to my slave from the BIOS and the GRUB loaded ok. On the GRUB menu it has numerous options.

Ubuntu Kernel - Generic
Ubuntu Safe Mode
Windows XP Home etc.

There are six boot options and none of them work they all come with this error.

"Error 17. Cannot mount selected partition

Press any key to continue..."

When i press a key it returns me to the GRUB load screen.

Please can someone shine some light on this problem?