No bootable partition after Ubuntu install

[Karl Larsen]

Doctor Who wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>   
>> Doctor Who wrote:
>>  >>  To add to that, if I mount /dev/sda1 locally and then look for
>>  >>  /boot/grub/stage1, it *is* there.  Just not being seen.
>>  >>
>>  >>
>>  >
>>  > I take that back...it's not there.  That was a fat-finger mistake and
>>  > I was looking at that from my desktop.  So grub is not there.
>>  >
>>  > desktop:/mnt/tmp/boot # ls -al
>>  > total 10576
>>  > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 2008-03-19 17:44 .
>>  > drwxr-xr-x 21 root root    4096 2008-04-05 11:56 ..
>>  > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  422387 2008-03-12 21:43 abi-2.6.24-12-generic
>>  > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   79746 2008-03-12 21:43 config-2.6.24-12-generic
>>  > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 7353114 2008-03-19 17:29
>>  > initrd.img-2.6.24-12-generic.bak
>>  > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  103204 2007-09-28 06:06 memtest86+.bin
>>  > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  903816 2008-03-12 21:43 System.map-2.6.24-12-generic
>>  > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1909528 2008-03-12 21:43 vmlinuz-2.6.24-12-generic
>>  >
>>  >
>>     I think he needs to find his /boot/grub/menu.lst and add to that this:
>>
>>  title           Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic (recovery mode)
>>  root            (hd0,0)
>>  kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic
>>  root=UUID=a9c1cb61-ddfd-44f6-88b
>>  0-6dc976daf9ca ro single
>>  initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
>>
>>  This should let you boot your Ubuntu. Then look at /boot/grub/menu.lst
>>  on it and change the above for what you have.
>>
>>  Karl
>>
>>     
>
> It doesn't appear that I'm able to 'find' the /boot/grub/menu.lst on
> the Ubuntu install.  As you can see from the output above that file
> does not exist.  Grub doesn't seem to be there at all.
>
> So in that case, do I need to great a 'grub' directory in '/boot' and
> then a menu.lst file containing the content outlined above?
>
> Thanks.
>
>   
    Did you install Ubuntu and tell the loader NOT TO install grub? If 
not you need too much detailed help to ever get this done. Here is 
another try.

    On your master Linux that has grub, open a terminal and type this:

sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt

If that completes then go to /mnt/boot/grub/ and see it there is a 
menu.lst there. If so do as I suggested. If not show us what you see at 
/mnt/.


Karl


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