EdgeWalker
August 7th, 2008, 12:56 AM
I have been trying for several hours to install 8.04 to an external USB hard drive using the following instructions:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2008/04/14/ubuntu-804-usb-hard-drive-install/ (http://www.pendrivelinux.com/...)
I followed the instructions exactly the 1st time (it instructs you to physically remove all other hard drives.) When finished, I got Grub error 2, with or without the internal hard drive attached.
A few tries later, I didn't detach the internal drive (why would you really do that, unless you're not confident that you can identify the drives in the install menu :rolleyes:) This time the Grub menu does appear :) but alas, none of the options work.
Attempting to boot to Ubuntu results in:
Error 17 Cannot mount selected partition
Attempting to boot to Windows results in:
Error 13 Invalid or unsupported executable format
I've searched elsewhere, but so far I haven't seen this situation. Thanks in advance.
EDIT:
Contents of menu.lst (after comments only)
title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=d5e044e1-3ad5-4765-a53c-53273feb9917 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=d5e044e1-3ad5-4765-a53c-53273feb9917 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
title Ubuntu 8.04.1, memtest86+
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
chainloader +1
Results of fdisk -l
(this is the internal drive)
Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x07220721
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 38912 312560608+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
(this is the external drive)
Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00058b02
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 38156 306488038+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 38157 38913 6080602+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Contents of device.map:
(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/sdb
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2008/04/14/ubuntu-804-usb-hard-drive-install/ (http://www.pendrivelinux.com/...)
I followed the instructions exactly the 1st time (it instructs you to physically remove all other hard drives.) When finished, I got Grub error 2, with or without the internal hard drive attached.
A few tries later, I didn't detach the internal drive (why would you really do that, unless you're not confident that you can identify the drives in the install menu :rolleyes:) This time the Grub menu does appear :) but alas, none of the options work.
Attempting to boot to Ubuntu results in:
Error 17 Cannot mount selected partition
Attempting to boot to Windows results in:
Error 13 Invalid or unsupported executable format
I've searched elsewhere, but so far I haven't seen this situation. Thanks in advance.
EDIT:
Contents of menu.lst (after comments only)
title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=d5e044e1-3ad5-4765-a53c-53273feb9917 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=d5e044e1-3ad5-4765-a53c-53273feb9917 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
title Ubuntu 8.04.1, memtest86+
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
chainloader +1
Results of fdisk -l
(this is the internal drive)
Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x07220721
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 38912 312560608+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
(this is the external drive)
Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00058b02
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 38156 306488038+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 38157 38913 6080602+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Contents of device.map:
(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/sdb