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biblefreak
August 24th, 2008, 06:12 PM
Never had this problem with any other distro, so this is a first for me. Installed Ubuntu Hardy and LOVE it. Have always been into KDE, but I digress. For some reason my bootloader installed on my ide drive rather than my SATA drive. My current setup is a 250gb SATA with half allocated to Windows and shared partitions and the other half to Linux and a swap partition. My ide drive is only there because I haven't taken it out!! With my BIOS set to boot from SATA I get GRUB errors, presumably from my old pcLinuxOS partition I wiped out to install Ubuntu. If I change BIOS to boot from the ide drive, Grub loads fine and I can select my Windows or Ubuntu installs.

How do I correct this issue as I am fixing to pull the ide drive to put in another machine?

Pumalite
August 24th, 2008, 06:41 PM
Pull the IDE drive and then reinstall Grub:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351

sandysandy
August 24th, 2008, 06:45 PM
u can try Super Grub Disk also, after disconnecting ur ide drive.

regards