Claude Heintz identified my problem. Thankyou Claude. I had noticed the descrepancy between the size posted on the drive itself and the reported size but I thought I was misinterpreting the HD label or that there was high overhead.
I think I will try Claude's approach because I installed with a preexisting XP operating system and it is first and I don't think I can move it to insert a /boot directory at the beginning, before the XP without losing my XP work. I saw where a fix was announced and I clicked on it but it led to 14 pages of launchpad description and no bug fix. It must be hidden in there somewhere. My bios allows a user definition of the drive, I am tempted to open the drive and record the description and put that in the bios instead of the choice of auto, but I figure if that would work, the auto choice would also work. How does a block differ from a cluster? Thanks to Claude and others. JIm -- 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 ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
