Ubuntu 8.04

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- Rob <robfleet at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> Greetings all,
> 
> Perhaps someone knows the answer to this...
> 
> Several days ago, I installed Ubuntu 8.04 to an
> external drive here (a 
> Hitachi 300 gig which has an option of a SATA
> connection or USB -- I'm 
> using USB).  Following the installation and reboot
> (it did NOT ask me 
> where -- or even if -- I wanted to install Grub) I
> am confronted with a 
> Grub error nbr 21.  Unfortunately, the boot process
> gets no further.  I 
> do not know how to fix this unless it's editing Grub
> but I have no idea 
> where the installation tried to put Grub.  I'm
> guessing on my internal 
> hard drive and not very successfully.
> 
> I have been booting with a Super Grub CD we burned a
> couple of days ago 
> but so far, that only lets me boot to Windows..not
> Ubuntu on my external 
> drive.  I'm wondering if anyone knows how I can fix
> this.  I fear if I 
> format my external drive via Windows and reinstall
> Ubuntu again, I'll 
> get the same result.    I have a Lenovo System Model
> 9120CTO with 
> Processor x86 Family 15 Model 107 Stepping 2
> AuthenticAMD ~2700 Mhz with 
> BIOS Version/Date LENOVO 2UKT46AUS, 12/26/2007 and
> one internal 300 Gig 
> Hitachi hard drive and one external 300 Gig Hitachi
> hard drive connected 
> via USB as indicated above.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do
> to fix this booting 
> problem short of formatting my external drive again
> and making another 
> attempt to install Ubuntu (I'd guess with the same
> results).
> 
> Many thanks in advance.
> 
> RobF
> Rockville, MD

This might help:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-526991.html
It basically tells you how to install grub on your
Ubuntu HDD(USB Drive) and should fix your problem.
Hope so,


Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net