hi,<br><br>I am new to linux (oh no, not another one, oh yes...;), and i ran into some troubles. My configuration is as follows.<br><br>Have 2 internal hdd:<br><br>ide0 master 300gb data<br>ide0 slave 160gb Windows XP Pro x64
<br><br>After trying the live cd of Kubuntu, and liking it, i wanted to
install it on a disk so i could boot it without the cd. I thought it
would be nice to put it on my portable hd (ext usb), so i could take it
with me and boot linux whereever i want..., which would amongst other
things allow me to get packages and support from within, as i don't
have internet at home. So i set of:
<br><br>to make a long story short, my external disk ended up partitioned like:<br><br>first 75 GB with ext3 for /<br>next 5GB swap<br>last 80GB saved for ntfs partition...<br><br>At
the last screen i saw a button advanced... and pressed it. it said
something like "Grub help goes here..." and a text field reading (hd0)
unfortunately none of the disks had ever been called hd0 in the wizard
so far, so i didn't really dare to change it, however thinking that
would not leave my portable disk bootable. It turned out that it didn't
manage to boot anyway. I cant remember exactly what happend, but none
of my three discs booted to kubuntu, so i did everything over changing
the value to (sda) how the wizard called my external hd. This gave a
fatal error upon installing grub, so i didn't bother testing it and
then tried again with (hd2).
<br><br>Now when booting from my external disk, i get a grub menu
letting me select three types of kubuntu and XP. XP boots, but with
Kubuntu i get the following error immeadiately after selecting any of
the three and pressing enter:
<br>
error 17 : cannot mount selected partition<br><br>Now i just wondered what to do. Someone <a href="http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/debian-linux-help/54820-cant-boot-kubuntu-after-installation.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
here</a>
managed to solve it by changing menu.lst. I thought I would like to try
that solution, but i have a few obstacles: I can only boot from the
live disk, and from windows.<br><br>How do i get write access to this file?<br>How do I find this file?<br>How do I edit this file?
<br>And as we are at it do you guys (and girls) think this might work or not, or have better solutions?<br><br>thx very much in advance...<br><br>greets<br><span class="sg">naja</span>