[Linux-disciples] Grub "error 22" when external USB drive plugged in

[Karl Sokol]

Happy Thanksgiving to all!!!

Black Friday fallout...

I have a working, dual-boot Ubuntu 8.10 and Vista64 setup.  Vista resides on
an internal hard drive and Linux is on a partition on an external USB
Drive.  I have yet another external USB drive.  If it is plugged in at
startup, I get an "error 22".  No finagling with the BIOS has any effect.
The drive works when plugged in after startup.

According to this helpful post:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=594657&page=2 , it seems that the
problem is a re-assigning of drive names at start up.  My menu.lst is
below...

## ## End Default Options ##

title        Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic
uuid        60559370-de24-46be-a7a2-189626e5137d
kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic
root=UUID=60559370-de24-46be-a7a2-189626e5137d ro
initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
quiet

title        Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic (recovery mode)
uuid        60559370-de24-46be-a7a2-189626e5137d
kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic
root=UUID=60559370-de24-46be-a7a2-189626e5137d ro  single
initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic

title        Ubuntu 8.10, memtest86+
uuid        60559370-de24-46be-a7a2-189626e5137d
kernel        /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title        Other operating systems:
root


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title        Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
root        (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader    +1


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda2
title        Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
root        (hd0,1)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader    +1


As you can see, the Linux bits are already assigned a UUID, rather than a
moveable name.  Do I need to do the same with the Windows entries?  If so,
what will the root line look like?  If not, what can I do?  I know it is not
life or death to have to plug/unplug a drive, but in my setup, it is sort of
a pain.

karl at karl-desktop:~$ sudo blkid
[sudo] password for karl:
/dev/sda1: UUID="7E14C3E414C39E11" LABEL="PQSERVICE" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda2: UUID="8CF67A0AF679F534" LABEL="OS" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdg1: UUID="D4C4C110C4C0F5B0" LABEL="Workshop" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdf1: UUID="52A0A6AEA0A697CD" LABEL="Storage" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdf2: UUID="60559370-de24-46be-a7a2-189626e5137d" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdf5: TYPE="swap" UUID="b88d7b1d-c973-45bf-a536-9744b58b7252"


Anybody come across this or have an idea?

-- 
Grace and Peace,

Rev. Karl Sokol
Franklin Grove UMC
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