apt-get upgrade and grub issue

[Tom H]

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:19 AM, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 08:14:38PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:16 AM, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
>> > I have a freshly installed 10.4 instance on a lab machine. I installed it
>> > from the CD. Then I did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade yesterday, or
>> > so. Today I tried to do that again, and now I have a problem. I am being
>> > prompted with a message that says:
>> >
>> > ??You chose not to install GRUB to any devices. ??If you continue, the boot
>> > ?????
>> > ????? loader may not be properly configured, and when your
>> > ??computer next ?? ?? ?? ?????
>> > ?? ??? starts up it will use whatever was previously in the boot
>> > ?? sector. ??If ?? ?? ???
>> > ?? ?? ?? ????? there is an earlier version of GRUB 2 in the boot sector,
>> > ?? ?? ?? ??it may be ?? ?? ?? ???
>> > ?? ?? ?? ?? ??? unable to load modules or handle the current
>> > ?? ?? ?? ?? configuration file.
>> >
>> > But answering NO, just brings me back to the same prompt.
>> >
>> > What should I do?
>>
>> Do you have a bootloader - grub2, grub1, lilo - installed?
>>
>
> It's a brand new plain vanila install, that I did from scratch .
> So, I am assuming that the current default is grub2, right?
> This machine was not upgraded, or anything like that, it was just
> installed from teh CD, with all defaults, and apt-get updatetd
> a time or two, and yesterday morning, when I went to do another
> apt-get upgrade, I ran in to this issue.
>
> How can I check to see what bootloader is installed?
>
> I have  left this machine at this prompt, as I really don't
> want to have to rebuild it from scratch, as i have 3+ days of setup
> invested in it at this point in time.

You have somehow managed to install Ubuntu without a bootloader. Amazing! :)