No bootable partition after Ubuntu install

[Doctor Who]

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/04/2008, Doctor Who <whodoctor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  >  Make sure that BIOS is configured to boot from the drive with the boot loader.
>  >  >
>  >
>
> > It is.  GAG comes up fine.  I can boot into my other OSs with no
>  >  problem.  It's just that /dev/sda1 is not a bootable partition and I
>  >  need to make it so.
>  >
>  >  Any ideas?
>  >
>
>  Use fdisk to make the partition bootable. It's the a command.
>
>
>
>  Dotan Cohen
>

Thanks...that made the drive bootable, but it still appears there's
nothing *on* the drive to boot.  Do I need to run 'grub-install' after
this?