I has this problem after installing Ubuntu on an older Gateway laptop that I had installed a new 160gb hard drive. I installed Ubuntu after restoring Windows XP. I did the fix by editing the config file which worked for a little while until, after a few reboots, I could not get a login from Grub. After re-installing and updating Grub endlessly with no ability to get into the computer, including booting Windows XP, I deleted Grub using SuperGrub CD and erased the Ubuntu partitions from XP and started over.
This time, I carefully looked in the BIOS because it was an older computer and the 160gb drive reported at 137gb! (as with comment #18). So, after re-installing Ubuntu, I used the LiveCD and Gparted to re- partition the hard drive with free unused space at the end to make the total partitioned space, including the Windows partition under 137gb. When I re-booted Ubuntu, the "no such device" error was gone. It seems to me much better to lose a few gb from the hard drive than have an un-bootable computer. I had no idea until installing Ubuntu that there was a size limit (this is a pretty old laptop). I guess I forgot that there was a time when 160gb hard drive was a new exceptional thing... BTW the old hard drive on the Gateway was a 20gb!! -- Grub 2 problem, error: no such device https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/403408 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
