Dual boot on portable drive
Please see Question #87048. My problem is exactly the same as his, except that I'm using Windows XP instead of Windows Vista. I'll restate what he said, with my own information substituted:
I have Windows XP installed on my desktop PC's internal hard disk. I have Ubuntu installed on a portable external hard disk. During booting a boot screen appears to select the operating systems I want to boot. So far it's okay. But the problem is that when I try to boot my computer without my external hard disk attached, a black screen appears and shows me "error: no such device: 6afff52c-"etc., and the "grub rescue>" prompt. How can I boot my desktop computer in XP without my external hard disk attached? (Because sometimes I'll want to remove the external hard disk from my desktop PC and attach it to my laptop instead, while someone else is using the desktop PC.)
Claudio Arseni replied to #87048 that the answer could be found in GrubHowto. I read that 44-page document and couldn't find the answer. Surely there should be a way to tell Grub that, if he can't find one of the operating systems (like Linux), he should just go ahead and boot-up the default operating system, which I've specified is XP?
THANK YOU.
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