jpadillafx
April 26th, 2008, 07:19 AM
Hello everyone, let me begin that I am a ubuntu newbie but I am very excited about what I've seen and can't wait to dive in deeper.
Ok, here it goes.. I want to install ubuntu 8.04 on my external hard drive so I can dual boot between winxp and ubuntu. I just insalled it from the livecd, partitioned my external hard drive, and restarted. However, when I go to f12 when i start my computer and tell it to boot from usb I get a grub 17 error saying something about not being able to mount the drive or something similar.
So... should I go and do it over again and tell it put the bootloader on a different partition? I currently told it to put it on sdb1 (external harddrive).
Here is how my external partitions are.
sdb1 (I want to use as storage space, I currently have 6 gbs worth of important data on it)
sdb2 - I want for the ext3 for ubuntu- I think there is something like 100 gbs free space.
sdb3 - swap- I designated like 10gbs to this. I know, too much but does it matter?
What specific things do I need to do to get this running? Do I have to tell it put the bootloader on my hda? I did this last night and had tons of trouble with grub errors when I started my computer.. (recovery console>fixmbr corrected this for me after hours of research :cry:)
Thanks to anyone who wishes to help this ubuntu newbie become a less of a ubuntu newbie. Cheers!
Ok, here it goes.. I want to install ubuntu 8.04 on my external hard drive so I can dual boot between winxp and ubuntu. I just insalled it from the livecd, partitioned my external hard drive, and restarted. However, when I go to f12 when i start my computer and tell it to boot from usb I get a grub 17 error saying something about not being able to mount the drive or something similar.
So... should I go and do it over again and tell it put the bootloader on a different partition? I currently told it to put it on sdb1 (external harddrive).
Here is how my external partitions are.
sdb1 (I want to use as storage space, I currently have 6 gbs worth of important data on it)
sdb2 - I want for the ext3 for ubuntu- I think there is something like 100 gbs free space.
sdb3 - swap- I designated like 10gbs to this. I know, too much but does it matter?
What specific things do I need to do to get this running? Do I have to tell it put the bootloader on my hda? I did this last night and had tons of trouble with grub errors when I started my computer.. (recovery console>fixmbr corrected this for me after hours of research :cry:)
Thanks to anyone who wishes to help this ubuntu newbie become a less of a ubuntu newbie. Cheers!