No bootable partition after Ubuntu install

[Doctor Who]

On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>

Yes, I do have a /boot/grub/menu.lst there now.  So I've gotten myself
to a point that I can select Ubuntu from the GAG boot loader, but I'm
then presented with a 'grub>' prompt.

I then do a "root (hd0.0)" followed by a "setup(0,0)" which completes
succesfully.  I then try to "boot" from that point and it says the
kernel must first be loaded, so I then enter the info for both kernel
and initrd and *then* type 'boot' which gets me to a point where I see
the system booting up but then it hangs a few minutes down the line
with no discernable progress.

Rebooting from that point and choosing to boot Ubuntu again takes me
straight to a 'grub>' prompt.

Ideas from here?