[sllug-members]: Major grub problems!

[Lee Myers]

Thanks for all the help so far.
To answer Andrews question:
> Are you attempting a multi-boot of some kind, or just a pure Ubuntu
install?
Pure as can be.

And I do have 2 hard drives but the other is formated (ext3) but is just
data no OS.

I am going to switch the main HDD from my mother board to my controller card
and reinstall to see if that will make it work right.

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:03 AM, gregorcy <gregorcy at eng.utah.edu> wrote:

>
>
> 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!
>
>
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