Grub not installing when Xubuntu installs

[Ryan Gauger]

Hello Bill,

The boot loader should be installed on the same HD as the OS. If it is not,
you will most-likely encounter a GRUB error telling you that it cannot find
certain files needed. All major computer manufacturers do not have floppy
drive spots installed in them, as floppy drives are used very rarely now.
You do not need floppy drives to install Ubuntu, so there should definitely
be np there. I hope this helps!

Sent from my Windows 8 PC <http://windows.microsoft.com/consumer-preview>

 *From:* Bill Stanley <bstanle at wowway.com>
*Sent:* Wednesday, June 13, 2012 12:16:05 PM
*To:* Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions
*Subject:* Re: Grub not installing when Xubuntu installs

Ryan,

 I am an experienced Linux user ready to help you! I think what you have
> done with the boot loader should resolve your issue. I am not good with
> this part of the operating system, just with the graphical part :) I
> hope you are able to fix the issue!
>
>
I might be getting at the root of the problem.  I used super grub2 to try
to boot into the Linux installation.  It failed saying that something was
wrong in the installation.  I might have a bad installation disk.  I used
bit torrent to download and .iso file which was then burned by Brasero.
 Probably the install disk was corrupted somewhere along the line.   The
strange thing is that the installation seemed to work OK.

Short story, I an downloading from a different source and trying the
installation again.  This time, I intend to look closely where grub should
go.  By the way, I checked my system BIOS and I can only boot from the
master hard drive, floppy drives  and other media but not the slave HD. (Do
computers still have floppy drives?  The computer I am trying to reinstall
certainly doesn't.)

Bill Stanley

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