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   From: "V. T. Eric Layton"    
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   Subject: Re: grub problems   
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   Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:14:39 GMT   
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   ray wrote:   
   > Since I upgraded from 5.10 to 6.06 on my laptop I have not been able to   
   > boot from grub setup from that partition. I have another active install on   
   > another partition (Elive 0.5) and if I install grub from that partition it   
   > boots fine - but trying to boot from ubuntu's grub results in the initial   
   > boot screen not appearing and a message that the disk is either bad or   
   > disconnected. I have reinstalled grub to no avail. I recently replaced   
   > the hard disk with a larger unit and after copying everything back (I used   
   > partimage to copy to an external USB hard drive) the new disk acts exactly   
   > the same way. Any ideas?   
   >    
   > thanks,   
   > ray   
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   Ray,   
      
   GRUB is only installed once on the MBR (master boot record) of each hard    
   drive. You can't install GRUB on individual partitions. You can edit    
   your active MBR GRUB (from whatever distribution) to load all your linux    
   distros, regardless of their locations on different partitions. For    
   instance, I'm running five different distributions of Linux on my system    
   (plus Windows). I allowed Ubuntu to install its GRUB on the MBR and then    
   modified it to load all the other operating systems.   
      
   Luck,   
      
   ~Eric   
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