Ubuntu 9.04 Installation

[Steve Reilly]

Rob wrote:
> Ok...here's a brain teaser.
> 
> I have tried twice now to install Ubuntu 9.04 to a Win XP box with the
> following results.
> 
> Installation Attempt #1
> The install appears to proceed normally to an external 500 Gig drive
> (brand new) with Grub installed to HD0.  Previous installations like
> this (to an older external drive) with Grub installed to HD0) worked
> fine.  However, upon reboot after the Ubuntu installation, the system
> halts on Grub error 15.  Fortunately, we had burned a Super Grub CD a
> little over a year ago and that allowed me to boot to XP but not to
> Ubuntu on the external drive.  Thinking it may be something unique to my
> machine (an IBM/Lenovo), we called them since we have have on-site
> coverage.  The technician came and installed a new motherboard (don't
> know how he determined that was a problem but so be it.)  We rebuilt the
> machine with the factory disks that came with it and I ran XP only for
> about a week before attempting to install Ubuntu.
> 
> Installation Attempt # 1
> Again, the installation appears to be proceeding normally to the
> external 500 Gig drive with Grub installed to HD0.  Once again, after
> installation completes and the machine is rebooted the following is
> observed:
> 
> GRUB Loading Stage 1.5
> GRUB Loading, please wait
> Error 2
> 
> My only alternative is to was to reboot using the Super Grub CD to run
> XP.  Would anyone have any ideas what may be going wrong here.  BTW the
> Ubuntu CD I am using came from Linux Format magazine so it was not
> downloaded or burned by me and I have no reason to suspect it is faulty.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Rob
> 
> 
ive never tried to install on an external disk, only thumbdrives, but
can your bios support it?  is it set to boot from usb, and not the
internal drive?



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Steve Reilly