boot loader not installed

[fyrbrds at netscape.net]

 Those commands don't work from a live cd right? When I tried to install grub manually after the install it halted with an error. Basically refused to install. I don't think I can install to the installed system from the live cd. I it is possible, what would be the necessary steps? 

Your last email also helps. I tried a wubi install around 6 months ago and had a heck of a time getting the raid to work then too. Finally found dmraid which worked. I didn't remember the name of it so thanks. I assumed that since the Ubuntu install found the raid5 and partitioned and installed on it that it would take care of all that automatically. 4 sleepless nights later it's clear that was a bad assumption. 

Of course it would also be nice it the Install coders did not allow install on unsupported drives. Previous versions of Ubuntu never recognized software raid configs in the install. When I saw it fully accessible in the partitioning phase of the install I got all happy and couldn't resist. Of course the standard drive didn't work either.

Another question: Isn't it possible to put insmod commands after root=/dev/xxx? Could I not instruct the kernel to install the dmraid module in the boot parameters?

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com>
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: Sun, Oct 25, 2009 8:37 pm
Subject: Re: boot loader not installed










On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:43 PM,  <fyrbrds at netscape.net> wrote:
> 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.

Forgot in my last email:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2

"Recover Grub 2 via LiveCD" is at about 75% down the page.

I would "sudo su -" to avoid all the sudos.

You will also need to run
aptitude update
aptitude install grub-pc grub-common
after the chroot.

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