Comment 4 for bug 222115

Hi Patrick and All, I will follow your guide, and give as much information as I can to help Ubuntu be a better Ubuntu in the future. I cut my teeth in Linux with Ubuntu, and have tried many others distro's since then. Also, I had tried an Ubuntu 8.04 beta install, and the same thing happened. It was unable to recognize my hard drives or partitions or boot into them, especially when using the Sata2 drive.

1.Specific Steps. Downloaded Kubuntu 8.04 via p2p with Transmission. Burned disc with K3B, and ran check media disc prior to installing or using LiveCD with your check media option...it passed. I tried to install Kubuntu 8.04 yesterday, April 24, 2008 twice. The first time I created a root partition, and had Kubuntu installed to that partition. I had the bootloader installed to boot from that partition. This was all on a new 250G Sata2 drive. I checked the install, and I was able to mount the partition from PCLinuxOS. My partition was called sdb3, and the hard drive partition I installed grub to was (hd1,2). The Sata drive is hd1, and the IDE drive is hd0. The choices were all default in the installer except for the manual hard drive partitions, and where to put the boot loader. I have a Linux already on this drive, and I wanted to test Kubuntu on another partition. So I created a single 30G root partition. I had a swap already created from before so it just used that during the install.
2.Behavior I expected...I expected it to recognize my partitions and drives, and to be able to boot into it after I had redone my MBR from PCLinuxOS. Grub did recognized Ubuntu, but it I was not able to boot into Kubuntu ever, and could not boot into other Linux partitions or into WindowsXP using the Ubuntu grub menu. PCLinuxOS could load itself, and Windows, but not Kubuntu. Error 22 kept coming up.
3.Behavior I actually encountered... Grub Error 22 or partitions not recognized for all Linuxes, and something like cannot execute command when trying to load WindowsXP.

The second time I just went with the default install, and installed it into the same partition sdb3, but let it overwrite my MBR at (hd0,0) in grub, thinking this was the problem. It didn't work either. The only time I was able to load Kubuntu's Grub menu.lst was when I changed the (hd1,2) to (hd0,2), but it would still give me Error 22's when trying to boot into Linux and not able to execute command messages when trying to boot into Windows

I hope this is detailed enough, as I have since deleted the partition, and the references to Ubuntu in my PCLinuxOS grub menu list, and this is all I can recall. I will attach my present grub menu.lst in hopes it may be helpful in getting Kubuntu working on my Sata drive.

Thanks for your help!