Thread: Three disks, grub2, cannot boot old ubuntu drive

hi all,

9.10 has me playing detective again...athlon 64

here deal- have new drive #1 9.10 , bootloader grub2 - works fine.

have second drive #2 windows vista, boots fine off grub bootloader in 9.10 #1

have third, #3, 9.10 install (an upgrade install) used grub (old gub) bootloader on it.

new 9.10 grub2 bootloader #1, cannot have fire other ubuntu drive. boots vista fine.

when connected itself, old ubuntu grub boots fine.

#1 , #2 sata, #3 pata (ide) jumpered master

have run update-grub on new drive, , few errors.

generating grub.cfg ...
found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic
found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
grub-probe: error: cannot find grub drive /dev/sdb1. check device.map.

grub-probe: error: cannot find grub drive /dev/sdb1. check device.map.

found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
found windows vista (loader) on /dev/sda1
found ubuntu 9.10 (9.10) on /dev/sdc1
grub-probe: error: cannot find grub drive /dev/sdc1. check device.map.

grub-probe: error: cannot find grub drive /dev/sdc1. check device.map.

grub-probe: error: cannot find grub drive /dev/sdc1. check device.map.

grub-probe: error: cannot find grub drive /dev/sdc1. check device.map.

grub-probe: error: cannot find grub drive /dev/sdc1. check device.map.

grub-probe: error: cannot find grub drive /dev/sdc1. check device.map.

grub-probe: error: cannot find grub drive /dev/sdc1. check device.map.

done
billrad@billrad-desktop-9:~$

ideas?

thanks

billrad1

are sure of drive order. many motherboards seem boot pata before sata.

see how system booting:
boot info script 0.32 courtesy of forum member meierfra
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/
instructions , info:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1291280
cd directory saved to:
chmod 755 boot_info_script032.sh
sudo ./boot_info_script032.sh
or example if on desktop
sudo bash ~/desktop/boot_info_script*.sh
create results.txt file in same directory. paste entire contents of file here. once pasted highlight text , click # sign on toolbar place code tags around text.

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