Re: HELP Please-GRUB Problem
It appears that you did indeed install Kubuntu on your first external USB drive which you've identified as "FreeAgent Drive". This shows up as a 500GB drive which is a fairly normal Free Agent, external, USB, plug-in drive in its own portable housing. This drive is being identified as drive "sdg" with several internal partitions.
During the install the configuration of internal and external drives could have been identified in a different naming pattern than the pattern that shows up at the next boot. I can't say that for sure, but something has definitely screwed with GRUB's mind. It would be possible to determine that a) Kubuntu is on your Free Agent drive and that /boot/grub is in fact on the first logical partition (sdg4) of that drive. It could then be possible to fix GRUB so that it references the actual location and geometry of that drive as the BIOS sees it. Because up to the point where the BIOS copies a specific sector of a hard drive and attempts to execute it the BIOS identity for that executable sector and GRUB's idea of what should have been there can be two very different things. That's what everyone is pointing out.
The simple solution is see if that 9GB partition on your internal drive can be used to install Kubuntu - don't worry that it's NTFS, Kubuntu can handle the formatting effort. Just make sure that whatever is there can be moved somewhere else. The more esoteric solution is to follow Qqmike's suggestion. That will be your decision, of course.
It all comes down to two entirely logical, yet separate entities (BIOS and GRUB) see your machine's configuration in two entirely different ways. Hope this helps.
It appears that you did indeed install Kubuntu on your first external USB drive which you've identified as "FreeAgent Drive". This shows up as a 500GB drive which is a fairly normal Free Agent, external, USB, plug-in drive in its own portable housing. This drive is being identified as drive "sdg" with several internal partitions.
During the install the configuration of internal and external drives could have been identified in a different naming pattern than the pattern that shows up at the next boot. I can't say that for sure, but something has definitely screwed with GRUB's mind. It would be possible to determine that a) Kubuntu is on your Free Agent drive and that /boot/grub is in fact on the first logical partition (sdg4) of that drive. It could then be possible to fix GRUB so that it references the actual location and geometry of that drive as the BIOS sees it. Because up to the point where the BIOS copies a specific sector of a hard drive and attempts to execute it the BIOS identity for that executable sector and GRUB's idea of what should have been there can be two very different things. That's what everyone is pointing out.
The simple solution is see if that 9GB partition on your internal drive can be used to install Kubuntu - don't worry that it's NTFS, Kubuntu can handle the formatting effort. Just make sure that whatever is there can be moved somewhere else. The more esoteric solution is to follow Qqmike's suggestion. That will be your decision, of course.
It all comes down to two entirely logical, yet separate entities (BIOS and GRUB) see your machine's configuration in two entirely different ways. Hope this helps.
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