Thanks all - I think Chris may have the correct analysis. This third-shift work makes it miserable for me to try anything in a reasonable frame, but I will give this a shot soon.
I believe based on the way things were installed that Chris is reading it right - I don't understand why the external USB-based disk was the only one I was offered (I tried a few times to insure I didn't have a list of three drives - I did not, however, with the system up, fdisk clearly sees the other drives) but there you go. My impression is that - for some reason - Ubuntu installed itself to the drive that is not available until the drives for that drive are made available - after boot. Live and learn. Or not. The system si a quite old Dell - I think it is maybe going on 10 years now - and last night, I just got tired of the gradual and continual slowdown of the system. I figured the only thing it really has is Visio, so I would replace the (even older?) laptop and see if I couldn't squeak out a little more performance. Silly me. Unfortunately, now I am at work in White Plains and won't be home until about 0600 - I guess I will get to play then. For now, off to do some reading. JC On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote: > On Friday, November 09, 2012 05:30:24 PM Matthias Johnson wrote: > > Chris, > > > > You may be correct but if the internal drive wasnt mountable how would it > > install anything to it? > > > > Matthias > > When Grub2 installs the boot sector portion of the boot loader into the > MBR, > it does that on the raw device (such as /dev/sda), not a filesystem. When > it > installs the /rest/ of Grub2 -- the configuration, modules, etc -- that's > done > on a mounted filesystem. > > -- > > -- Chris > > Chris Knadle > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Dec 5 - Sysadmin Panel > Jan 9 - High Performance Computing > Feb 6 - February Meeting > -- Eschew obfuscation and pompous prolixity. Light a man a fire, he is warm for the night. Light a man afire, he is warm for the rest of his life.
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