Ubuntu 8.04

[Rob]

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 15:31 +0200, Kanda Kumar V wrote:
>         Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:38:33 -0600
>         From: Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com>
>         Subject: Re: Ubuntu 8.04
>         To: "Ubuntu user technical support,     not for general
>         discussions"
>                <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>         Message-ID: <48AAB0B9.2090000 at zianet.com>
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>         
>         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

[snipped]

>            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
>         
>         
>         --
>         

I reinstalled it to the external USB drive and it works now.  Somehow it
liked Grub this time.

Rob