boot loader not installed

[Karl F. Larsen]

fyrbrds at netscape.net wrote:
>  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? 
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> 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.
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> 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.


	This does not make sense. There may be another strange thing 
on this drive. I think you will get more and better help if 
you write a request for help that includes a lot of details 
about your system.


73 Karl



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> 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?
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> -----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
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> 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.
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>> 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)
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>> 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)
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> Forgot in my last email:
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> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2
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> "Recover Grub 2 via LiveCD" is at about 75% down the page.
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> I would "sudo su -" to avoid all the sudos.
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> You will also need to run
> aptitude update
> aptitude install grub-pc grub-common
> after the chroot.
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