Grubbing error 17

[Lakshmipathi]

When you re-installed ,sda5 is formatted as ext3 and all required packages are installed in sda5.
After 98% completion ,before editing boot entries , you got this message,

And I have no idea, that before it was about to reinstall successfully (like around 98%), a pop-up saying that "grub-install (hd0) failed - A fatal error",

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For some reason (Which i don't know) boot records are not updated.


Try reintalling grub on (hd0,4) , How to install Grub from a live Ubuntu cd. - Ubuntu Forums

Reboot and check .If that didn't work - I'm not sure whether -reinstalling grub will automatically detect or update sda5 as ext3

Then use fdisk to edit sda5 fs type as ext3

fdisk /dev/sda
//press t and enter your partition which is 5. (sda5)
Command (m for help): t
Partition number (1-4): 3
//set it as 83
Hex code (type L to list codes): 83
//write and exit from fdisk
Command (m for help):w

Reboot and check .If these two didn't work,I guess then you need re-install kubuntu again

[ichliebede]

Thank you for your replies, rcgreen and Lakshmipathi.

I re-installed Kubuntu on ext2 instead of ext3, and then it worked!