On 9/30/07, Sahil Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > your stage1 of the GRUB is installed in MBR, while stage2 is in external > USB > HDD. > so, without the external USB HDD plugged in GRUB won't be able to get into > its stage2 (which does the majority of GRUB's magic). > > **installing GRUB on the external disk would still give you no solutions > !!
What I intend to do is install GRUB on my external HDD and remove it from the internal HDD. So my stage1 and stage2 would be in the USB HDD. And i will select that as my boot device when i need to boot into Ubuntu. I suppose that should solve the problem right?? I will be removing the GRUB from MBR on my primary disk using $>dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1 But i suppose there are problems with this. This wont restore my Windows boot loader right?? On 9/30/07, Puneet Lakhina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > After successfully installing Ubuntu 7.04 on my external USB HDD, I am > > facing a problem. > > GRUB is installed on my primary hard disk. SO when i boot without having > > plugged in the USB Hard disk, i get the following error. > > GRUB Loading please wait.. > > Error 21 > > > > After looking up what error 21 means i found out it means that a disk > > could > > not be found. Is there a way to circumvent this problem? Should i > install > > GRUB on the secondary disk, and remove GRUb from this disk? That seems > > like > > the better solution but I dont really know how to go about just > installing > > GRUB on my USB HDD and keeping my existing Ubuntu Installation. > > > > -- > > Puneet > > _______________________________________________ > > ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] > > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > > Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 > > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > > > > -- > Sahil > > MCA(SE) > USIT > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- Puneet _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
