Re: Error 21, Bug or Feature Request?

[Branden R. Williams]

Ahh!  Gotcha.  Will try that tomorrow!


On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Jason Thomas wrote:

> The problem is that grub is being installed in the mbr of the first
> drive but uses files from the second drive.
>
> What you should do is install grub into the mbr of the second drive, and
> then use the windows bootloader to chainload grub.
>
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 05:02:27PM -0600, Branden R. Williams wrote:
> > SO Anyway....  We've got it working marvelous.  Except for one thing.  I
> > installed Grub on the internal HD which only has Windows on it.  If both
> > drives are present, it works like a champ.  But if I change out the second
> > drive and put a CDRom in that bay, I get the infamous Error 21 message.
> > Is there not a way to tell Grub to ignore a certain drive if it is not
> > present?
> >
> > If not, might that be a feasable feature request?  I.e., drive Y does not
> > exist, do not display any boot options from it.  Only from drive X which
> > is currently present and we are using its MBR to boot from.

Blue Skies,

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