addr Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 I have a sata drive and a slave hdd. I installed Ubuntu on the slave and tried to install its grub to its / partition. I'm not sure I got this right. I just copy the boot information from the menu 1st of any new distro (like Mandriva two weeks ago) onto the menu 1st of the first distro whose MBR is at sda1. I am sticking with Mandriva for sure but wanted to have a look at Gnome on an AMD64 system and as I had Ubuntu anyway I thought I'd try it. I get an Error 17 when I try to boot it. Here is the menu 1st entry. title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17-10-generic root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic root=/dev/hdd2 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic It is installed on hdd2 but the boot loader on sda1 gives me an error 17. Should it be hd1 perhaps? [moved from Hardware by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted December 10, 2006 Report Share Posted December 10, 2006 (edited) hd0,1 translates to /dev/hda2 /dev/hdd2 should be (hd1,1) If the IDE HD is slave to a CD-ROM you'll likely encounter performance issues. Edited December 10, 2006 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
addr Posted December 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2006 It is slave to the sata drive. I tried (hd1,1) but it tells me the drive does not exist and I think this may be a BIOS setting. I know the people in the shop changed something there to stop the machine from trying to boot the non-sata drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted December 10, 2006 Report Share Posted December 10, 2006 (edited) It is slave to the sata drive. Mighty impossible! The master/slave bus terminology does not apply at all for the serial ATA protocol. Can you be more specific what-you-have-hooked-in-there-and-how ? Edited December 10, 2006 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
addr Posted December 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2006 Sorry about that, its what it looked like. Anyway I went into the Bios and changed the setting for the non sata drive from what the shop people had set it too and now it sees the drive at least. I won't waste any more of your time as I don't need Ubuntu and it has cost me hours (I tried to install it on the sata drive and it told me I had four primary partitions already...I have two, I checked). Thank you for your help and again I apologise for wasting your time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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