Bug#297480: grub: doesn't boot with Error 17

[Jason Thomas]

Your best bet is to try installing using the floppy.
cat stage1 stage2 > /dev/fd0

then do what you did last time root/setup.

My theory is that when you boot the bios is possibly seeing the scsi
controller first. This may be changeable in your bios settings.

bios: (hd0) - scsi
linux: (hd0) - ide

make sense?

Its something I've seen before myself and got around by installing from
a floppy. But I don't know if what I think is happening is what is
happening.