On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Vicky Staubly <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Sep 2009, Rob wrote: > >> Installation Attempt # 2 > > Again, the installation appears to be proceeding normally to the >> external 500 Gig drive with Grub installed to HD0. Once again, after >> installation completes and the machine is rebooted the following is >> observed: >> >> GRUB Loading Stage 1.5 >> GRUB Loading, please wait >> Error 2 >> >> My only alternative is to reboot using the Super Grub CD to run >> XP. Would anyone have any ideas what may be going wrong here. BTW the >> Ubuntu CD I am using came from Linux Format magazine so it was not >> downloaded or burned by me and I have no reason to suspect it is faulty. >> > > Is your internal hard-drive IDE or SATA? I ask because Linux seems > to assign both USB and SATA drivers as pseudo-SCSI (i.e. /dev/sda, > /dev/sdb, etc.), and I'm wondering if your external drive might be > showing up as /dev/sda during install, but as /dev/sdb when you're > trying to boot from Grub on the internal drive. > > When booting from the Super Grub CD, can you get into a shell? If so, > cat you send the contents of /etc/grub.conf (or grub.lst which I think > is what Ubuntu uses (I use Fedora)). And maybe /etc/fstab? > > Vicky has the solution for you. I have done this half a dozen times or more. The order of the drives when you boot from CD is different than when you boot from the HD. The trick is to figure out the change needed, which is why Vicky is asking for the contents of files. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500&ref=mf ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
