okanagansage
September 8th, 2010, 03:23 AM
Hey, I had created a LiveUsb from a LiveCd using Startup Disk Creator and then later formatted the usb drive and installed Ubuntu 10.04 onto it again. On the last install, instead of using the Startup Disk Creator, I installed using the desktop icon (from within a LiveCd session) and found the usb during the manual partition.
Now when I try to load straight into Vista (without the usb drive plugged in), I get a black screen with two lines of text:
error: no such device: ...(followed by about thirty letters and numbers)
grub rescue> _
When I load straight into vista (with the usb drive plugged in), I get a normal grub menu. This is like you get with a normal dual-boot. On the last install, I'm guessing I should have left out the grub and then I wouldn't have to have the usb plugged in all the time. Assuming that I should just remove grub, my question is: how do I do that?
When I load into Ubuntu by pressing 'escape' to access my boot menu (BIOS?), after choosing to boot the usb and just before the grub menu appears there is a message saying that an operating system is missing. I don't know if I should worry about that right now. I'm thinking that will be resolved if I remove grub.
I'm using a hp pavillion media center pc (model: m8532f)
Intel Core 2 Quad (Q6700)
Please let me know if you need any more information and where/how I can find that info (if it involves config. files, etc).
Also please let me know if I'm way off base with my evaluation of what the problem is and how I should deal with it.
Thanks.
Now when I try to load straight into Vista (without the usb drive plugged in), I get a black screen with two lines of text:
error: no such device: ...(followed by about thirty letters and numbers)
grub rescue> _
When I load straight into vista (with the usb drive plugged in), I get a normal grub menu. This is like you get with a normal dual-boot. On the last install, I'm guessing I should have left out the grub and then I wouldn't have to have the usb plugged in all the time. Assuming that I should just remove grub, my question is: how do I do that?
When I load into Ubuntu by pressing 'escape' to access my boot menu (BIOS?), after choosing to boot the usb and just before the grub menu appears there is a message saying that an operating system is missing. I don't know if I should worry about that right now. I'm thinking that will be resolved if I remove grub.
I'm using a hp pavillion media center pc (model: m8532f)
Intel Core 2 Quad (Q6700)
Please let me know if you need any more information and where/how I can find that info (if it involves config. files, etc).
Also please let me know if I'm way off base with my evaluation of what the problem is and how I should deal with it.
Thanks.