GRUB problem after upgrading to 10.04

[Tom H]

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/02/2010 10:37 AM, Mark Ziranski wrote:
>> grub-install with 10.04 LiveCD did the job.
>>
>> Thanks for all the replies!!
>
> I find this interesting. The problem appears to have been the
> selection of /dev/sdb1 instead of /dev/sdb or /dev/sda.

Pre-Karmic running grub-install on a partition would fail. I think (I
have not tried it since October 2009 this is what I understand from
posts here) that you now can but get a warning message.