GRUB Problems

[Guerreiro]

Esteemed (K/X)Ubuntu'ers,

I need some help. I had a Samsung HDD (Internal) that crashed, was a fault of the store that sold it to me and they went bankrupt. I thought I buy an external HDD (Western Digital Elements 1.5TB) and boot Kubuntu from there, so I still use the computer till I buy a super nice one after USB 3.0 hit the streets.

The problem I keep having by booting of the external HDD is that GRUB keeps saying
error: bad filename

Can someone here please help me out how to install Kubuntu on a external HDD and make it boot correctly?

Have a nice day. :)

[dino99]

check it with partedmagic

prepare your hdd first:

mini howto: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9216264&postcount=14

[gordintoronto]

During installation, specify manual partitioning. There will be a drop-down which shows SDA or HDA, select SDB or HDB instead, which should be your external hard drive.

After installation, set your BIOS to boot from the external hard drive.

[Guerreiro]

If it were that simple gordintoronto I would not ask for help. :) What I did was go and install, specify to use the whole disk of sdb1 (external one) sda1 being the internal one, and choosing advanced install Bootloader /sdb or should it be /sdb1 ?

[dougalkerr]

Guerreiro

I think you need to name it sdb1. I had to give my USB key a number after the letters for it to be recognized. I have not booted from it though. The BIOS must accept booting from external. My laptop BIOS should but, when I set it to do this... it does not. Typical...

Good luck.

[Guerreiro]

haha, yeah Linux is great, but when confronted with these sort of problems I tend to rip my hairs out ;)

[Guerreiro]

This is not solved yet, but what I am going to do is run Katana over at hackfromacave and that works ( I tested it already) :D