Messed Up My Eepc 1000he

[timmy]

Well basically i was booting off backtrack from a usb and i finally decided to install backtrack to my 8GB SD card for persistence so i did. Instead of doing via command line i was lazy and stupid and i thought install.sh would work. Well once i pulled out the usb and tried to boot from the SD card it was just a blank screen. I wasn't worried i thought i would just have to re flash my bios with newer firmware. So when i tried to boot into my duel boot of Windows xp and ubunto i encounter Error 21. So i tried everything to fix it yet none hope. BUT whats interesting is that it will boot if i have the SD card which i installed backtrack onto and when i have a usb plugged in. By boot imean boot of grub from the SD card and not my netbooks hard drive. So yeah its really weird and ive tried several solutions to fix it but im stump any ideas before i just clone my xp partitiona and do a clean install ?

thanks

[Charles]

You wouldn't need to flash the netbook's bios at all.

A for the blank screen, I'm guessing that it is looking for an MBR on the SD card, which probably doesn't have one. Does it boot up fine with nothing attached?

[Sparda]

Grub is configured wrong, run grub-install with the correct options (as opposed to the wrong options which install.sh will have done).

[timmy]

Resolved guys thanks for all your tips

I reinstalled grub on my linux partition then installed it on the MBR

The issue was that it would only boot when the sd card and usb was connected see this site if you want the full details of what happened

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/grub-error-21...usb-hard-drive/