How to boot up Ubuntu 10.10 (grub not installed on MBR)?

[Ryan Wang]

2011/4/28 Chhatoi Pritam Baral <chhatoipritam at gmail.com>

> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 20:23, Ryan Wang <openspace.wang at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have only on disk on my notebook, about 150 GB.
>> I allocated the first 50 GB to Windows XP, and then
>> installed Ubuntu 10.10 from USB to the last 100 GB
>> with boot loader installed on /dev/sda5 (/boot partition).
>>
>
> You should not have installed the boot loader on /dev/sda5, but on *
> /dev/sda* instead.
>
> You can boot again from the Live USB, mount the partition /dev/sda5 (on say
> /mnt), and then from the command line:
>
> $sudo grub-install /dev/sda --root-directory=/mnt --recheck
>
> That will install the boot loader on */dev/sda.*
>
> Does it will modify MBR?
I don't want to modify MBR for my harddisk is encrypted. And mofication on
MBR
made me failing on  boot up any installed OS.

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