On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Rob wrote:
On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 19:22 -0400, John DeCarlo wrote:
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Rob <[email protected]> wrote:
When I choose to boot Ubuntu, the Ubuntu Splash Screen appears and I get
the following:
Boot from (hd2,0) ext 3 eb309597-f711-458-b3b7-0a281dae6281
How many hard drives do you have in the system?
(hd2,0) means the first partition on drive 3 (hd0 is first hard drive, hd1
is second).
When it is booting, you can use the arrows to select one, then press 'e' to
edit.
I would try changing (hd2,0) to (hd1,0) or (hd3,0) and see if that works.
I have one internal drive but it has two partitions. Where would I make
the change you suggest above? And, why would it be seeing the Ubuntu
splash screen if it cannot see the drive. It apparently does see it but
then somehow changes its mind and says it doesn't exist. I thought
maybe I had a flaky USB port for the external drive but I just swapped
that connection and got the same results. :(
The GRUB code is probably not on the same drive as your Ubuntu
installation. GRUB is probably at the beginning (the "master boot
record", or MBR) of your internal drive. So, that should explain why
it can load itself, but not Linux.
One nice thing about GRUB is that once it's loaded, it will let you
change its configuration "on the fly".
As John says, pressing "e" lets you change the GRUB commands normally used
for one of the entries in your boot menu (you probably have 2 entries, 1
for Ubuntu and 1 for Windows). Select the entry you want to try booting.
Then press "e" to edit that entry. It should then show you a list of
commands... such as "root hd(2,0)"... I think that's what John wants you
to edit. I haven't played around with Grub a lot myself (it's generally
worked as-is for me).
For more details, the grub manu can be found here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Booting
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