Install fails to boot

[NoOp]

On 09/27/2008 11:03 AM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
> 
>> I think that this will help:
>>
> <http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?s=63f1a6a8ebb64a81d5e170316e2d630b&p=4587202&postcount=9>
>> 
>> So, when the grub menu comes up:
>> <quote - w/comments>
>> hit "c"
>> That will bring you to a Grub prompt.
>> grub>
>> If you installed a /boot partition, do
>> Code:
>> 
>> find /grub/stage1
>> 
>> [NoOp comment: interestingly enough, that gives me an error 15 on my
>> dual boot system that works just fine]
>> 
>> If you did not do a /boot partition [most likely choice] do
>> Code:
> 
> It's just a badly designed example.  Obviously, it makes more sense to put
> the more normal construction first - most of us don't have a pure /boot
> partition, so the first version _won't_ work, because in the grub
> syntax "/" is whatever's at the top of the filesystem tree, on that
> partition, so a /boot _partition_ doesn't have any directory /boot.

Ah. Thanks. I'd actually never tried it before & only tested the first
time before responding to the request. Glad I found it though, as I
didn't know that you could do that from the grub menu :-)