Error installing grub for ubuntu 12.10

[Vedang Patel]

By doing this grub is installed but it is not showing any boot options. It
just stops and gives me a command line interface.
 On Oct 21, 2012 1:15 AM, "Nils Kassube" <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> Vedang Patel wrote:
> >  I am trying to install ubuntu 12.10. But, somehow there is some
> > error while installing grub. So, I am not able to boot into ubuntu.
> > I tried repairing it using boot-repair without any success. I also
> > tried reinstalling it multiple times. I am using it side by side
> > with Windows 7. Previously, I was using ubuntu 11.04 with windows 7
> > without any problems. Please help with this issue. Following is the
> > link generated by boot-repair.
> >
> > http://paste.ubuntu.com/1294057/
>
> I'm not sure, but to me it looks like grub tries to boot from sda1 while
> it should boot from sda5:
>
> | ============================= Boot Info Summary:
> ===============================
> |
> |  => Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at
> sector 1 of
> |     the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and
> looks
> |     for (,msdos1)/boot/grub on this drive.
>
> I would try the following. Running the live system I would open a
> terminal and use these commands:
>
> sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt
> sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda
>
> Then reboot.
>
>
> Nils
>
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