I would be happy to, but right now I am on the road away from my external USB
hard drive that I was using. Following is the what I can give for now.
I need to dual boot with windows on my laptop because a critical program is
only available for that OS. ("Michlet" a ship hull drag calculation tool) The
internal HD is cramped for space so an external HD serves to boot Ubuntu.
When I load Ubuntu on the 20Gig Toshiba USB hard drive the default location for
installing grub is on the internal windows hard drive. After installation the
USB drive must be connected or the computer will give an error (I've forgotten
what code the error is) and drop down to a command prompt. Reebooting
after reconnecting the USB hard drive made everything worke as expected. This
seemed to be merely a step in grub that looks for the Ubuntu drive and gives
and error because the drive is not found.
Although it does take some programming, the fix seems small enough for it to be
a paper cut. If grub looks for a drive and does not find one of several, it
should just note which system is not available because of a drive not found and
(instead of dropping to a command prompt) display the valid OS choices.
--- On Sat, 1/16/10, om26er <[email protected]> wrote:
From: om26er <[email protected]>
Subject: [Bug 492191] Re: multiboot systems fail at grub when a drive
containinng an os is removed
To: [email protected]
Date: Saturday, January 16, 2010, 12:24 PM
We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't
heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested
information? Thanks!
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