Greetings folks, I posted this on an Ubuntu Linux list I subscribe to earlier today but I've not yet gotten any useful responses. So, I thought I post it here on the chance someone may be able to help. Here's hoping...
Thanks, Rob Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:09:44 -0400 Subject: Ubuntu 9.04 Installation From: Rob <robfl...@ix.netcom.com> To: Ubuntu-Users <ubuntu-us...@lists.ubuntu.com> Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:09:51 -0400 Message-Id: <1252184991.8234.20.ca...@upstairsrob> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 Reply-To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-us...@lists.ubuntu.com> List-Id: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users.lists.ubuntu.com> Ok...here's a brain teaser. I have tried twice now to install Ubuntu 9.04 to a Win XP box with the following results. Installation Attempt #1 The install appears to proceed normally to an external 500 Gig drive (brand new) with Grub installed to HD0. Previous installations like this (to an older external drive) with Grub installed to HD0 worked fine. However, upon reboot after the Ubuntu installation, the system halted on Grub error 15. Fortunately, we had burned a Super Grub CD a little over a year ago and that allowed me to boot to XP but not to Ubuntu on the external drive. Thinking it may be something unique to my machine (an IBM/Lenovo), we called them since we have have on-site coverage. The technician came and installed a new motherboard (don't know how he determined that was a problem but so be it.) We rebuilt the machine with the factory disks that came with it and I ran XP only for about a week before attempting to install Ubuntu again earlier today. Installation Attempt # 2 Again, the installation appears to be proceeding normally to the external 500 Gig drive with Grub installed to HD0. Once again, after installation completes and the machine is rebooted the following is observed: GRUB Loading Stage 1.5 GRUB Loading, please wait Error 2 My only alternative is to reboot using the Super Grub CD to run XP. Would anyone have any ideas what may be going wrong here. BTW the Ubuntu CD I am using came from Linux Format magazine so it was not downloaded or burned by me and I have no reason to suspect it is faulty. Thanks in advance. Rob -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-us...@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
