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I've just finished installing Ubuntu onto a computer which, has 1 SATA DVD-RW device and 1 IDE HDD on slave. Just after installation finished GRUB threw me an error like this:

error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'

I tried this: What to do when I get an "attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'" error and Boot Repair does not solve the problem?. And it didn't work. Does it REALLY have something to do with my only HDD being on slave? And how do I fix this anyway?

UPDATE

I've managed to set it to master by randomly changing the jumper... And now it's not doing anything AT ALL. It just goes black. And NOTHING AT ALL happens, just stays black. BUT! Ctrl + Alt + Del does restart the PC. Any help now?

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The problem was: GRUB bugs out when the HDD is the only slave IDE drive. You have to make your way to make it master. After that you have to re-install GRUB, which I did by installing boot repair in a live CD using the advice here on the Ubuntu help wiki.

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