apt-get upgrade and grub issue

[Tom H]

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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! :)

(Amazing because I have never seen an option to do so in the Ubuntu installer.)