The Ubuntu installation completed, I rebooted, and I get<BR><BR>GRUB Loading stage1.5 .<BR><BR>GRUB loading, please wait...<BR>Error 17<BR><BR><BR>then nothing else ...
Do the same thing for your other drive, which will be either hdb or hdc depending on how you have things hooked up. Also useful is a 'ls -lR' listing of /boot and the contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst.