System rendered unbootable!

[Ben Francis]

Eric Donkersloot wrote:

>Please specify your partition layout and where did you have grub
>install the mbr ?
>  
>
I let ubuntu do the partitioning automatically, which was
hda1     /     (ext3)
hda5           swap

I assume it installed the mbr to hda1.

I've checked over the GRUB setup and it all seems fine.

A couple of other things:

I'm told that pressing escape when the GRUB error message comes up 
should give me a menu. It does nothing.
The motherboard supports RAID but there are no RAID devices attached 
which it correctly detects, I don't know if that makes a difference.

Is this an Ubuntu bug perhaps?

tola ^/.

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