Public bug reported:
My setup was:
1) a new new SATA hdd on which there was a new xp install, and on which i was
installing the 8.04 RC.
2) an old IDE drive from the old computer, on which i XPs and an older ubuntu
The install went quite smoothly, but the grub would not boot ubuntu. In fact,
it mismatched the Hdd names
: it put hdd(1,x) instead of hdd (0,x). Quite curiously, it did it correctly
for the XP partition on the new HDD, but wrongly on the ubuntu partitions.
I include the original menu.lst file. (is there any way of attaching two files
here?). I replaced the hdd (1,x) by hdd (0,x) for the first drive boot options,
the very way it is set up for the XP on the SATA drive from which it is
supposed to boot. The system works now.
Actually, I installed the system twice. I had problems on both occasions.
Earlier - around 20.04.2008, maybe it was an earlier Ubuntu 8.04 RC image? - I
had very similar problems. The installer did not provide the correct boot
partition description for the XPs on the SATA drive (which was the only I
wanted to boot, anyhow).
Hope this helps,
IH
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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GRUB, 8.04: error in grub disc naming, resulting in boot failure
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220692
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