No bootable partition after Ubuntu install

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Sat Apr 5 21:55:41 UTC 2008


On 05/04/2008, Doctor Who <whodoctor at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>

I don't think so, but it won't hurt. Are you sure that grub is
pointing to the right partition? Grub starts to count from 0, so (for
example) sda1 is (0,0).

Dotan Cohen

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