Comment 85 for bug 403408

This bug has just struck me.

I made an iso of Xubuntu today (latest), and tried installing it on an old computer (P2 850, 256 Ram, etc). Install went fine, but I got exactly the same messages as reported above (error: no such device). This was a complete install on a small hard drive, using the whole HD and erasing the previous OS (Win2K).

In possibly a related note, I tried installing Ubuntu 9.10 on my main desktop computer today (a P4 3.0 Ghz). It has Win XP installed. During the installation, I told it create a partition in the large unused portion of my secondary harddrive (not the hard drive that Windows boots from). When the install completed and the computer rebooted, I got the typical Grub menu, but when I selected to boot from grub, I got a blank screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner of the screen and it sounded like the HD was seeking over and over. Nothing ever happened. I had to do a hard reset after about 5 min.

I haven't tried any of the fixes suggested, because that's not really a fix and I'm not comfortable editing those file(s).