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Grub error 15

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I have installed ubuntu 8.04 on my second hasrd disk using the alternate install cd after failed GUI installation. Unfortunately grub fails error 15 on startup and I'm stuck. I suspect it is something to do with the large disk. My bios reports the disk size as 137 GB but ubuntu sees it as 248GB. I read all the posts, created a grub boot floppy with no joy.
I'm now stuck, please help.

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Best Arnaud Soyez (weboide) said : 		#1

Try booting on a livecd, and using the partition editor (hit alt+F2, type 'gparted' without the quotes). And try deleting every partition from your second hard disks and hit the apply button. Then try installing using Entire Disk option, make sure you select the second hard disk.

Hope this helps you.

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saint (john-grieve) said : 		#2

Thanks for your post. I gave up trying to install on the 2nd hard disk after deleting the partitions and failing again. I installed on 1st disk and all went smoothly - but XP is gone. So be it. I think it was a problem with the BIOS but only BIOS upgrades can be done via windows as far as I can see. Now for the laptop...