Geom Error?

[s1wood]

I've just done a re-install of Lucid Lynx netbook since I was having space problems due to having installed it on the smaller HD . On doing the restart I'm just getting 'Geom Error' on the screen.
Is there anything I can do about this or do I have to go through the install again?

Susan

[halitech]

Never heard of a geom error but google turned this up

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=53396

[s1wood]

I think I'll just repeat the install, it's probably the simplest way.

Thanks,

Susan

[halitech]

if the issue is related to the BIOS settings then reinstalling won't help out. You say you installed on a smaller hard drive first. Did you replace that drive with the larger one? If/when you did, did you verify the BIOS settings to confirm the drive was detected properly?

[s1wood]

This is an EeePC with a 4Gb drive and a 16GB drive. on my first install everything went on the 4GB drive and I kept getting warnings that I was running out of space. The 16GB drive could be mounted but I had no idea how to make use of it and it had to be remounted everytime I started.
I had two failed installs on the 16GB drive, the 3rd time I looked at the advanced tab before proceeding with the install and found it was going to install the bootloader on the other drive. I altered that and this time it is working. So far!

I still don't know what a geom error is, but with any luck I shall never need to know!

Thank you for your advice.

Susan

[anewguy]

This may help explain the geom error more.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/grub-geom-error-287509/