Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: grub
A fresh install of the 8.04 Desktop full release on a system with
multiple hard drives fails to set up grub correctly.
I installed Ubuntu to sdh, which already had Windows Server 2008 on
sdh1(30gigs). Not that it should matter, but sdh2 (128mB)was /boot,
sdh3(2gigs) was swap, and sdh4(40gigs) was /.
Selecting any operating system in the grub boot menu resulted in "Error
5: Partition table invalid or corrupt"
Apparently grub was configured to boot to hd7, eg:
title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic
root (hd7,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=xxxxx ro quiet splash
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
quiet
Grub apparently detected sdh as hd0, thus it should have been configured
to:
title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=xxxxx ro quiet splash
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
quiet
Although I certainly not an expert on grub, this could be because grub detects
the hard drive it is installed on as hd0...
This is not a hard problem to figure out/fix for a grub/linux savvy
user, however it could present problems for novices.
** Affects: grub (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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8.04 Installation Grub Problems
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221509
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