deusdiabolus
October 5th, 2010, 06:43 PM
A little while back I did a complete reinstall of 10.04. I have an external USB drive that I use for storage that I had previously installed Ubuntu on, before I realized that it would be easier to use the drive for storage and have the OS on the original internal drive of the machine, which would mean that I could upgrade/reinstall without destroying my end-created content...but anyway. Ever since I did the reinstall, GRUB2 will not allow the system to boot with the external plugged in due to the drive having the old GRUB bootloader on it (I get an Error 15). I have to wait for the OS to boot and then plug the drive in. I tried unmounting it and then using the drive manager utility to make the drive non-bootable (which I thought would remove the GRUB bootloader and resolve the problem), but it persists.
What I would like to know is this:
1. Is there a way to fix the bootsector/bootloader so that I can leave the drive connected during reboots? I don't plan to boot from the external, I just don't want to have to keep plugging and unplugging it.
2. Can I fix this without lobotomizing the contents of the drive? Losing 500GB of data is not an experience I wish to repeat anytime soon.
Thanks in advance...
What I would like to know is this:
1. Is there a way to fix the bootsector/bootloader so that I can leave the drive connected during reboots? I don't plan to boot from the external, I just don't want to have to keep plugging and unplugging it.
2. Can I fix this without lobotomizing the contents of the drive? Losing 500GB of data is not an experience I wish to repeat anytime soon.
Thanks in advance...