Ubuntu 8.04

[Karl Larsen]

Rob wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> Perhaps someone knows the answer to this...
>
> Several days ago, I installed Ubuntu 8.04 to an external drive here (a 
> Hitachi 300 gig which has an option of a SATA connection or USB -- I'm 
> using USB).  Following the installation and reboot (it did NOT ask me 
> where -- or even if -- I wanted to install Grub) I am confronted with a 
> Grub error nbr 21.  Unfortunately, the boot process gets no further.  I 
> do not know how to fix this unless it's editing Grub but I have no idea 
> where the installation tried to put Grub.  I'm guessing on my internal 
> hard drive and not very successfully.
>
> I have been booting with a Super Grub CD we burned a couple of days ago 
> but so far, that only lets me boot to Windows..not Ubuntu on my external 
> drive.  I'm wondering if anyone knows how I can fix this.  I fear if I 
> format my external drive via Windows and reinstall Ubuntu again, I'll 
> get the same result.    I have a Lenovo System Model 9120CTO with 
> Processor x86 Family 15 Model 107 Stepping 2 AuthenticAMD ~2700 Mhz with 
> BIOS Version/Date LENOVO 2UKT46AUS, 12/26/2007 and one internal 300 Gig 
> Hitachi hard drive and one external 300 Gig Hitachi hard drive connected 
> via USB as indicated above.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do to fix this booting 
> problem short of formatting my external drive again and making another 
> attempt to install Ubuntu (I'd guess with the same results).
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> RobF
> Rockville, MD
>
>   
    I think you should just forget trying to put Ubuntu on a USB 
connected hard drive. I say this because I KNOW that the USB drive is 
not active until AFTER Grub loads the kernel, and it can't get to the 
kernel until the USB drive is active. It is a catch 22 problem and you 
will never be able to fix it.

    So if you want Ubuntu please install it on your internal hard drive. 
This works fine.

Karl


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