System rendered unbootable!

[Eric Donkersloot]

Was there an OS previously installed on this box ? It seems to me that
grub has difficulty writing the mbr. You could use the fdisk /mbr
command to rewrite your mbr anf then reinstall Ubuntu again.
Are your hard drives correctly detected during the install ?


On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:38:32 +0100, Ben Francis <lists at hippygeek.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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Eric Donkersloot
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