Grub not working

dave boland dboland9 at fastmail.fm
Wed May 4 19:42:54 UTC 2011



On Thu, 05 May 2011 03:22 +0800, "Goh Lip" <g.lip at gmx.com> wrote:
> On 05/05/2011 03:17 AM, Goh Lip wrote:
> > On 05/05/2011 03:08 AM, dave boland wrote:
> >> 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,
> >
> >
> > Did you get to 11.04 from 8.04 or earlier without any fresh (new)
> > install? Please see if there is a /boot/grub/grub.cfg there and print
> > this out if there is.
> >
> > And are you willing to convert your grub-legacy to grub2?
> > I am getting 'rusty' with grub-legacy now.
> >
> > Regards - Goh Lip
> 
> One more thing, did you used Super Grub or other boots at some time?

Goh,

No, I have never used this (or heard of it).

Dave,
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