remove usb external drive with 11.04 installed
squareyes
squareyes at internode.on.net
Mon Nov 14 13:02:36 UTC 2011
Hi,
I am dual booting 10.04 with an external drive (internal drive in a
caddy mains powered) with 11.04 installed.
I have acquired a Western digital drive (usb powered) that I am trying
to replace the mains powered drive, so unplugged
it, and installed 11.04 on the usb powered drive. Now nothing will boot
unless I re-plug in the mains powered drive.
Menu on boot shows list of available to boot, but with old external
drive unplugged, gives message can't find etc.
ubuntu 10.04 edit grub menu.1st in Google only gives info on Grub2, (no
menu.1st file)
My menu.1st file has no notation for either of the external drives (below)
All installed 10.04 kernels only showing, df in terminal shows drives
as sda1 sdc1 and sdb1 (listed in that order)
title Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-33-generic
uuid eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-33-generic
root=UUID=eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-33-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-33-generic (recovery mode)
uuid eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-33-generic
root=UUID=eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-33-generic
title Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-32-generic
uuid eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-32-generic
root=UUID=eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-32-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-32-generic (recovery mode)
uuid eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-32-generic
root=UUID=eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-32-generic
title Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-28-generic
uuid eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-28-generic
root=UUID=eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-28-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-28-generic (recovery mode)
uuid eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-28-generic
root=UUID=eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-28-generic
title Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-27-generic
uuid eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-27-generic
root=UUID=eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-27-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-27-generic (recovery mode)
uuid eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-27-generic
root=UUID=eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-27-generic
title Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-25-generic
uuid eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-25-generic
root=UUID=eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-25-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-25-generic (recovery mode)
uuid eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-25-generic
root=UUID=eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-25-generic
title Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-23-generic
uuid eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-23-generic
root=UUID=eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-23-generic
quiet
both
title Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-23-generic (recovery mode)
uuid eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-23-generic
root=UUID=eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-23-generic
title Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.31-22-generic
uuid eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-22-generic
root=UUID=eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-22-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.31-22-generic (recovery mode)
uuid eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-22-generic
root=UUID=eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-22-generic
title Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.28-15-generic
uuid eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-15-generic
root=UUID=eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-15-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.28-15-generic (recovery mode)
uuid eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-15-generic
root=UUID=eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-15-generic
title Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, memtest86+
uuid eb827970-b141-42c5-a049-5885c15a439b
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet
Could someone help me in how I can remove Grub menu entries for the
external drives, and I will re-install 11.04 on the
usb powered drive.
Many thanks in advance.
Take care
Winton
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