Unable to Mount Volume / error while parsing numbers

[Jasonhdavis]

Hello

I am duel booting XP and Ubuntu (Hardy) with several other drives for different media. After installing with advanced options to place GRUB on the Ubuntu partition I get the error Unable to Mount Volume.

I believe this problem is caused because GRUB is calling hd1,4 the root instead of dev/sdb5. When I attempted changing this in the GRUB command line, it told me "Error while parsing numbers"

Here's fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7297 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x54ed5163

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2 7297 58605120 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 2 7297 58605088+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x32833544

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 10703 85971816 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 10704 30401 158224185 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 * 10706 14621 31455238+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 14622 17232 20972826 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb7 17233 30401 105779961 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdc: 750.1 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0000f116

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 393 3156741 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc2 394 10130 78212452+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc3 10131 30756 165678345 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc4 31011 91201 483484207+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdc5 31153 91201 482343561 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc6 31012 31152 1132551 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order


and the important(?) part of menu.lst

## ## End Default Options ##

title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic
root (hd1,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=5ca5766d-0a24-425f-96cc-9e4c648d297e 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 (hd1,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=5ca5766d-0a24-425f-96cc-9e4c648d297e ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic

title Ubuntu 8.04.1, memtest86+
root (hd1,4)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

This is my first Ubuntu install. I hope someone can help me get it working!

Thanks!
Jason

[jualin]

Grub doesn't use dev/sdb to identify the hard drives or partition it uses hdx,x, so you should change it back.

[Jasonhdavis]

Grub doesn't use dev/sdb to identify the hard drives or partition it uses hdx,x, so you should change it back.

I guess that explains the "error while parsing numbers" error?

What about the Unable to Mount Volume?