verbal.kint
December 23rd, 2008, 05:03 PM
I have 7.10 on my internal harddrive on a 14GB partition. I was installing 8.10 on a partition on my external hard drive but after the install i get an ERROR 21 at the grub boot loader when the external drive is NOT plugged in and an ERROR 17 when the external harddrive IS plugged in. I am talking to you from an 8.04 live cd because it will allow me use the wireless.
my grub.menu from my original 7.10 install is:
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-16-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-16-generic root=UUID=499840b7-d5ea-4776-9542-8e45b7b569e8 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-16-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-16-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-16-generic root=UUID=499840b7-d5ea-4776-9542-8e45b7b569e8 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-16-generic
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-15-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-15-generic root=UUID=499840b7-d5ea-4776-9542-8e45b7b569e8 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-15-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-15-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-15-generic root=UUID=499840b7-d5ea-4776-9542-8e45b7b569e8 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-15-generic
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=499840b7-d5ea-4776-9542-8e45b7b569e8 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=499840b7-d5ea-4776-9542-8e45b7b569e8 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
title Ubuntu 7.10, memtest86+
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet
and the device.map for the same install is
(hd0) /dev/sda
my grub.menu from my original 7.10 install is:
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-16-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-16-generic root=UUID=499840b7-d5ea-4776-9542-8e45b7b569e8 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-16-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-16-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-16-generic root=UUID=499840b7-d5ea-4776-9542-8e45b7b569e8 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-16-generic
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-15-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-15-generic root=UUID=499840b7-d5ea-4776-9542-8e45b7b569e8 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-15-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-15-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-15-generic root=UUID=499840b7-d5ea-4776-9542-8e45b7b569e8 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-15-generic
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=499840b7-d5ea-4776-9542-8e45b7b569e8 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=499840b7-d5ea-4776-9542-8e45b7b569e8 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
title Ubuntu 7.10, memtest86+
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet
and the device.map for the same install is
(hd0) /dev/sda