boot loader not installed

[Goh Lip]

fyrbrds at netscape.net wrote:
>   No responses so far on this. I have another question. In one of the 
> boot loader faqs I read, someone made mention of Ubuntu's boot loader. 
> Am I right in assuming that Ubuntu uses grub? Is there another forum for 
> boot loaders?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fyrbrds at netscape.net
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Sent: Sat, Oct 24, 2009 1:43 pm
> Subject: boot loader not installed
> 
> I tried to install ubuntu 9.10 beta. It completes the install but does 
> not install grub. I boot with other boot cds or with easy bcd and these 
> can find grub no where. Why would ubuntu think it made a proper install 
> without a boot loader?
> I have tried installing it 5 times on different drives and different 
> partition schemes with the same result.
> 
> I want a dual boot config. I have Windows Vista on a 500GB drive (hd0)
> 300GB NTFS (hd1)
> 300GB Nvidia SW RAID w/ 3x WD Raptor 150 (hd2)
> 
> Tried installing on hd2 3 times. Finally read pages with information 
> leading every which way.
> Tried hd0 twice. hd0 has 160G Vista partition. I set up a 40G /home, 12G 
> swp, 4G /tmp, and 80G / (sda8)
> 
> All attempts to boot this config after install have failed. The Vista 
> boot loader remains intact.
> I tried NeoGrub and the Super grub Boot cd. No grub install found anywhere.
> 
> Last question: Is there a way to boot to a command prompt with the live 
> cd for repairs? The live cd gnome terminal is practically blind-mute.
> 
> John
> 
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John, I do not use raid, but since nobody else replied to you....did you 
try installing with raid disabled?
If it works, then modify grub.cfg to
insmod raid
and enable raid again.

Read this first

http://grub.enbug.org/LVMandRAID


Again, I have not tried using raid and ubuntu is slow in taking up grub2 
  revisions (though ubuntu's grub2 in now in beta4), so I cannot vouch 
if this works. Well, good luck.

Regards,
Goh Lip