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Big Bad Booting Bungle

post #1 of 5
6/18/05 at 7:04am
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isnt alliteration fun?

anyway, i recently tried installing kubuntu linux on my computer. since my p.o.s. only has a 40 gig hard drive i installed it on a partition on my external hard drive. unfortunately i think it installed GRUB 1.5 on the external as well, so now i have to have the drive plugged in when i boot, or else i get something like "Grub couldnt load Error 21" and nothing else happens. i've peeked into the bios but i dont really know it very well and i couldnt remedy the problem. could someone help me get the bios to boot from where it's supposed to and not use grub?
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post #2 of 5
6/18/05 at 1:30pm
Heh it sounds like you installed grud on the MBR of your installed partition, and grub software installed on your External HD(Because a MBR is very small). How to fix it depends on what you want to have happen, do you want to have show up every time you boot(Working version that is?) Or do you just want to boot into the default OS for that drive(Which I may actually be able to help you with

Seablade
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post #3 of 5
6/18/05 at 10:44pm
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i would like to be able to boot my computer without having to have my external hard drive plugged in, which it cant do at the moment.
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post #4 of 5
6/19/05 at 2:13am
Yes but the question I had is, do you mean boot it to what OS? Do you need it to boot into grub and give the option of using the External even if it is not hooked up? Do you mean boot directly into Windoze? Boot directly into linux? What you do differs depending on what you want.

Seablade
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post #5 of 5
6/19/05 at 6:12am
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its not an issue anymore, i made windows smaller and installed it onto my onboard hdd. thanks anyway
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