Pendrive is set as hd0, causing installation problems
Bug #152645 reported by
Svein Tore
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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grub (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
After installing Ubuntu 7.10RC from scratch I get the GRUB menu as I have with previous releases. Selecting to boot ubuntu gives a message about not being able to find anything to boot. Selecting Windows Vista (dual-boot system) I get a message about not being able to find NTLDR. Thus I have to use recovery and repair the MBR. Sorry for the scarce information, but it's hard to get much info as the system never boots. If this is something new and will be looked into, I will be able to provide more details if someone tells me how.
Note that 7.04 worked perfectly on my system.
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After some more research I found out that GRUB got installed onto wrong HD. The reason for this is that I have to USB pen drives plugged into my computer and they were put BEFORE my SATA HD. So USB disk 1 became (hd0), USB disk 2 became (hd1) and my SATA HD became (hd2). So I reinstalled GRUB into (hd2), but that doesn't really work either as GRUB doesn't detect my USB drives at boot time so my SATA HD becomes (hd0) again and thus the entries doesn't work. Manueal editing will do it of course, but USB disks really shouldn't be set as (hd0) upon installation?