When I installed Kubuntu I already had a dual boot system with Win XP on hda1 and Xandros on hda2. I decided to give Kubuntu a try since I could not get Xandros to recognize my SATA drive. (I'm totally pissed about paying for that and not gettin any support. It's been 3 weeks and they still have not made more than the most basic response!) Anyway, I setup Kubuntu 5.10 on sda1 (that same SATA drive) and all (for the most part, except printing) is well.
I also have an older drive that I used under XP set up as an NTFS partition. I want to get rid of that drive so I formatted the Xandros partition as EXT2 (so I sould use it in both Linux and XP) and I copied everything over from hdb1 to hda2. Again all seems to be well.
Now the problem. When I shut down, unplug the drive, and restart, I get Error 21 when grub starts to load. I've done some forum searching and can't find anything to help this problem. I've tried booting from the CD and running rescue to try the grub-install /dev/hda trick but no luck.
I could do another total reinstall but I've spent days getting everything set to my tastes and want to avoid that if there is another fix.
Basically I think I jsut need to have grub redo the boot menu but I don't know how to do it.
BTW, the sytem boots up fine as long as the old drive is attached.
Thanks,
Kumar
I also have an older drive that I used under XP set up as an NTFS partition. I want to get rid of that drive so I formatted the Xandros partition as EXT2 (so I sould use it in both Linux and XP) and I copied everything over from hdb1 to hda2. Again all seems to be well.
Now the problem. When I shut down, unplug the drive, and restart, I get Error 21 when grub starts to load. I've done some forum searching and can't find anything to help this problem. I've tried booting from the CD and running rescue to try the grub-install /dev/hda trick but no luck.
I could do another total reinstall but I've spent days getting everything set to my tastes and want to avoid that if there is another fix.
Basically I think I jsut need to have grub redo the boot menu but I don't know how to do it.
BTW, the sytem boots up fine as long as the old drive is attached.
Thanks,
Kumar
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