Edubuntu Installation / Dual Boot Problem

[john]

Hi Theresa,

If grub failed to install then you won't have any luck running
commands with grub I suspect. Here's a couple of questions:

Where did you choose to install grub?

Did you make your / partition bootable (I assume that's where the
Linux kernel is since you didn't mention a seperate boot partition)?

 Grub will probably want to over-write the windows boot partition,
with it's own info... is that the way you chose to install it?

In short, a little more info please.

John


On 5/27/07, Theresa <rockprinzess at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've been lurking on this mailing list for quite a while. As you may, or may
> not, already know I've been doing this Edubuntu project for the past 4 months
> in my local highschool for my bachelor degree. So far so good, everything
> works like a treat with Edubuntu Edgy.
> Now the school (the network admin) asked me to setup/install Edubuntu Feisty
> on a local machine. The only condition is that Windows XP will still be
> available, I've read lots of wikis and peoples reactions on dual boot, so I
> didn't consider it much of a problem.
> I began installing Edubuntu Feisty from the Desktop CD, in the partition menu
> I chose
>
> sda1 (being the windows xp parition) ..... I didn't touch this. it's NTFS
> format
> sda2 (will be the linux partition) ......I think this was around 5gb as EXT3
> is my / partition
> sda3 ...700mb as my SWAP partition
> sda4 ..the rest of it probably around 15GB...EXT3 again as my /home partition
>
> The installation aborted at 94% prompted by the following error message
>
> "The execution of <<grub install (hd0) >> has failed. This is a serious
> problem" ... something along these lines.
>
> At home I hooked up on IRC #edubuntu to get some answers to my problem.
> So far I've tried
>
> sudo grub
> find /media/disk-1/boot/grub/stage1
> ---> this caused: Error15: File not found
>
> I've also tried sudo grub-install /dev/sda2
> prompted by "The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly."
>
> I really don't know what to do right now. Is it impossible to install Edubuntu
> Feisty on that machine? What caused these errors or why won't Grub install?!
>
> I'll appreciate ANY advice.
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Theresa
>
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