Grub on CD?

[shelagh]

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:06:49 +0200, Bob Hentges wrote:

> shelagh wrote:
>> I installed ubuntu a few days ago and thru' absent mindedness, laziness.
>> call it what you will, I left the cd in the drive. When I booted up
>> tonight without the cd I got a message grub loading "Error 16". When I
>> tried to reboot with the cd in thinking to go into rescue mode, it started
>> up sweetly. Does this mean grub is on the cd? Will I have to use it as a
>> boot cd, or surely there is a recipe for moving it on to the harddrive. 
>> Another explanation might be; hardware misconfiguration? I had to lend my
>> graphix card to my son and hacked the xorg.conf file to use the onbord sis
>> card. Maybe the cd grub can cope but not the harddrive grub?
> 
> Well, if you can boot up into your installed system, when using the cd, 
> you could use grub-install to put grub to your MBR.
> 
> Friendly

Well, there you go! I will look up the man page for this today.
But just our of interests sake, how do I find out what error 16 is?

Shelagh