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scott1541
April 16th, 2009, 01:21 PM
today i installed ubuntu 9.04 (beta) on my external hard drive so i could use it with different computers. when the hard drive is plugged in grub comes up and gives me the usual list of operating systems, fine
When i boot without the hard drive i expected it to just boot as normal (into winxp) but grub comes up again and it says error 21, is there a way to make the computer boot as normal without the HDD. OR is there a way i could use ubuntu and xp without grub at all?

scott1541
April 16th, 2009, 02:44 PM
to further add to this i tried to boot 9.04 on my (vista)laptop, i set the bios to boot from usb external hard drive first but when grub came up there was only options to boot 8.10 or vista, no option for 9.04:( wtf?