new install

[Lloyd Miller]

Ok, hey thanks fellas, lisyen i have now gotten all the way to its loaded
right, then it restarts and gives me a comand prompt preceeded by the
following,
sh <grub>_    that is of course, greek to me, any other thoughts?

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 27 February 2010 14:05, Lloyd Miller <lloydleroimiller at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I've tried actually, probably a dozen times, same thing, and on different
> > hard drives, figure it must be my iso-burned thing but It's all i got for
> > now, thank you anyway
>
> Did you try doing the CD check from the list available when booting from
> the CD?
>
> Colin
>
> >                                                                   Lloyd
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Christopher Chan
> > <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Saturday, February 27, 2010 12:17 PM, Lloyd Miller wrote:
> >> > Ok, i looked at the cd, i tried the os (ubuntu 9.10) and I decided to
> >> > put it on the harddrive and completely do awqay with windows.  I
> started
> >> > to follow the prompts to do just that.  The thing got to the place
> right
> >> > after the format, (it formatted, hard drive now says no os installed,
> >> > now it wont install, come up with error# 5 right after it formats,
> that
> >> > leaves me with nada
> >> > any thoughts?
> >> >
> >>
> >> Grub reporting error 5 stands for partition table is corrupt.
> >>
> >> Reinstall?
> >>
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