New installation failing to take over from old installation

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 12:56:51AM +0200, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > I am trying to install a new Lubuntu 12.10 onto a machine here.  It's a
> > pretty standard sort of desktop machine with nVidia chipset, intel dual
> > core processor and two 320Gb SATA disk drives.
> >
> > The installation seems to work with no problems, I tell it to use the
> > whole of the 'first' SATA disk for the installation and to install grub
> > on the MBR.
> >
> > The result though is that the *old* grub (version 1.99) menu appears
> > offering me the old version of linux (I think it's an 11.10) and, at the
> > bottom of the boot list the new version.  If I try and boot the new
> > version it tells me it can't find the kernel and fails to boot.
> >
> > How can I do a completely clean install, that's what I want to do?
> 
> Do you select to replace the existing installation, during install?
> 
There isn't an option asking that exactly is there?  I selected "use the
whole disk" when partitioning but that only uses the whole of one disk
of course.

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Chris Green