System rendered unbootable!

[Eric Donkersloot]

Please specify your partition layout and where did you have grub
install the mbr ?
You should also do a google on that error message, it's quite a common
error message.

Eric


On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:28:41 +0100, Ben Francis <lists at hippygeek.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm trying to install Ubuntu (4.10) on a server at work as a web server.
>       The install runs absolutely fine but when it comes to the point
> where I'm prompted to eject the CD it restarts but won't boot up. It
> gives an error:
> 
> "GRUB Hard Disk Error"
> 
> Doing a hard disk installation of Knoppix 3.4 works fine so I'm pretty
> sure Ubuntu is the problem.
> 
> I'm kind of in a hurry because I've been experimenting with distros for
> about three days and my boss is getting a little bit impatient and wants
> a working server! Please help me get a working system before he forces
> me to install Windows and IIS!
> 
> The system is a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 motherboard with an sis900
> network card, 2Ghz Athlon, 1Gb RAM and a 120Gb Maxtor hard disk.
> 
> Many Thanks
> 
> tola ^/.
> 
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