Grub not working

[dave boland]

On Thu, 05 May 2011 02:15 +0800, "Goh Lip" <g.lip at gmx.com> wrote:
> On 05/05/2011 12:10 AM, dave boland wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 twice to get Grub to work, but all I get
> > is a blank screen (no graphics or text), then it boots to Ubuntu Logon
> > screen.  I really need to get this to work because it is a dual boot
> > machine (Ubuntu&  Windows ME -- until 12/30/11).
> >
> > Here is what I have/Know -- hope it helps.
> >
> > Partitions as per GParted:
> > * dev/sda1;   fat32;     WINDOWS
> > * dev/sda2;   Extended
> > *   dev/sda5; fat32;     SHARED
> > *   dev/sda6; fat32;     BACKUPS
> > *   dev/sda7; linux-swap;
> > *   dev/sda8; ext4;      /
> > *   dev/sda9; ext4;      /home
> >
> > The version of Grub is:
> > grub --version
> > grub (GNU GRUB 0.97)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> 
> Dave, please recheck, er, next time you boot into 11.04, at terminal
> grub-install -v
> It should be version 1.99, not 0.97.

Goh,

This is what happened:
grub-install -v
grub-install (GNU GRUB 0.97)

One other fact that may be helpful.  When I installed 11.04 (both times)
the installer said no other operating systems were found, which implies
it didn't detect Win ME.  Still, the normal course of events is that
Grub appears and I have to add 3 lines to the menu.lst file (Grub 1) to
have a menu to boot Windows.

Thanks for the help and I look forward to getting all of this to work.

Dave,
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