No bootable partition after Ubuntu install

[Doctor Who]

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Doctor Who <whodoctor at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > 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
>  >
>
>  OK...let me show what I have and maybe that will help:
>
>  desktop:/home/who # fdisk -l
>
>  Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
>  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
>  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>  Disk identifier: 0xfdb8211d
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>  /dev/sda1   *           1       60051   482359626   83  Linux
>  /dev/sda2           60052       60801     6024375    5  Extended
>  /dev/sda5           60052       60801     6024343+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
>
>  Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
>  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
>  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>  Disk identifier: 0xf18da1dc
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>  /dev/sdb1               1       10199    81923436    7  HPFS/NTFS
>  /dev/sdb2   *       10200       12749    20482875   83  Linux
>  /dev/sdb3           12750       15299    20482875   83  Linux
>  /dev/sdb4           15300       60801   365494815   83  Linux
>
>  Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
>  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
>  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>  Disk identifier: 0x0007a82a
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>  /dev/sdc1   *           1        2611    20972826   83  Linux
>  /dev/sdc2            2612        2873     2104515   82  Linux swap / Solaris
>  /dev/sdc3            2874        3004     1052257+  83  Linux
>  /dev/sdc4            3005       60801   464254402+  8e  Linux LVM
>
>
>  OK...so /dev/sda is where Ubuntu is installed.  On /dev/sdb I have
>  both Vista and Fedora and on /dev/sdc I have openSUSE.  I'm able to
>  boot to all of these, but not Ubuntu.  Also, from the grub prompt I
>  show:
>
>  grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
>  find /boot/grub/stage1
>   (hd1,1)
>   (hd2,0)
>  grub>
>
>
>  So notice that nothing shows for /dev/sda1 (hd0,0)
>
>  What do I need to do to 'fix' this?
>
>  Thanks.
>

To add to that, if I mount /dev/sda1 locally and then look for
/boot/grub/stage1, it *is* there.  Just not being seen.