[sllug-members]: Major grub problems!

[gregorcy]

Andrew Johnson wrote:
>> I recently reinstalled Ubuntu and since then i have been getting error 22
>> sometimes and error 21 other time I have tried everything I can think of. I
>> have Goggled both problems and the causes of the error and nothing has
>> worked. Does any one have any ideas on what to do?
> 
> Despite the URL,
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows
> has some general GRUB troubleshooting instructions for Ubuntu.
> 
> Are you attempting a multi-boot of some kind, or just a pure Ubuntu install?



This is off the gentoo forums page found here:
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-122656-highlight-grub+22.html


Here is the post:
> Hi.
> 
> I haven't read throughout this whole thread but I'd just like to bring my 2 cents. I've just installed Grub on a machine with 2 disks and I wanted to boot on the second one (/dev/hdb or hd1). Grub gave me that error 22 message too.
> 
> I've been banging my head against the wall for a couple of hours till I found that the first hard disk (/dev/hda) had to be partitionned, i.e. there had to be at least one partition defined, even non-formated but there had to be one. I created a partition on /dev/hda and rebooted: no more error 22 from Grub.
> 
> I thought I had to share that.
> 
> EDIT: St00pid me! It happens when your (older) BIOS has options to select boot drives individually (i.e. HD0, HD1, HD2 aso)... I just selected HD1 to boot on the second hard drive. Ah! damn Award BIOS... Damn me!