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Grub loader error 17 dual boot vista ubuntu

Bug #181718 reported by clawfire
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Bug Description

After install Vista SP1 my dua boot work some day but today i've got a grub error 17.
When i boot with live cd it take 40 min to boot and i've a lot of this error :

[12032.836000] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[12032.836000] ata1: EH complete
[12036.876000] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[12036.876000] ata1.00: (BMDMA stat 0x25)
[12036.876000] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:10:b2:2c/00:00:00:00:00/eb tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
[12036.876000] res 51/40:08:10:b2:2c/00:00:00:00:00/eb Emask 0x9 (media error)

And impossible to mount any partition or detect with gparted (who crash)

I don't know if it's the vista sp1 but after some research it seems that people MUST NEVER INSTALL BITLOCKER because it crypt entire disk (wormholl) and just vista can acces it. It confirm by microsoft and clubic.com . Moreover maybe there a silent replace of ntfs by msfs with sp1 (vista can edit partition when windows running) and msfs is not recognized by ubuntu ...

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Sven Boden (svenboden) wrote :

Can you confirm your ntfs filesystem was replaced by msfs (by Vista), and whether this was done automatically or because you used installed bitlocker.

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Abhishek Sharma (neo1985-abhishek) wrote :

I also face similar problem. Pls help

I just rebooted after installing bitlocker & this happened.

Can't i use bitlocker with ubuntu? No option at all???

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Abhishek Sharma (neo1985-abhishek) wrote : (Solved) Re: Grub loader error 17 dual boot vista ubuntu

Just got through the problem... of Error 17

It happens when we partition or repartition the hard drive which causes its addresses like (hd0,1) to become (hd0,2), etc.
That is we create 1 more partition before the partition in which grub exists... leading to grub not working.

This can be solved by terminal entries:

sudo grub
<We are now in GRUB>
find /boot/grub/stage1
<We get the address of HDD partition where grub is located, e.g. (hd0,3)>
root (hd0,3)
<making grub to boot from this location>
setup (hd0)
<this will set the new grub loader settings in MBR>
quit

Thats it. Reboot. GRUB is fine now... There will be problems relating to OS not booting.

Solve this by pressing e to edit there location < like (hd0,1)>
This will be based on the no. of partitions & where u installed a particular OS.
Once u get to know the respective addresses on HDD for each OS, edit Menu.lst file and change the addresses to the new addresses u just found.

Open menu.lst by typing this in terminal
sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Thats it. Problems solved...

However i still wanna know whether we can use bitlocker with ubuntu or not.....

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Jayson Rowe (jayson.rowe) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

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