Dan, tried that... didn't work either. But then I didn't change the dip switches on the back of the drive so maybe thats why?
Menace.... Yes, it's installed on my slave drive on which are several partitions, Ubuntu is installed on the first small 5gb partition.
Grub configuration.. I'm guessing you mean the menu.lst file? Here is the bottom part without all the "#" lines.
title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17-10-generic
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic root=/dev/hdb1 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic
quiet
savedefault
boot
title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17-10-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic root=/dev/hdb1 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic
boot
title Ubuntu, memtest86+
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet
boot
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/hda1
title Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
no option to boot from cd rom on GRUB. I have looked at how to add this, but my cd(dvd) drive does not appear on the device.map file. It does recognise it because I can put audio CD's in. However, I don't know whats it's "name" is, ie hda, hdb etc.
One suggestion I have seen is adding this to the menu.lst
title cdrom
root (hd1) # if your cdrom is hdb, which it probably is
chainloader +1
...but my slave drive is hdb (I think).
I'm running Dapper at the moment. Not got Beryl yet.