14.04

[Nils Kassube]

Martin Cigorraga wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> > sudo grub-install /dev/sda
> > sudo update-grub
> 
> Running grub-install this way lets grub trying to guess the correct
> media and flags needed to properly install itself.
> Try running this instead:
> $ sudo grub-install --target=i386-pc
> 
> More info here:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub#Preliminary_requirements

Thanks for the interesting pointer. However for *Ubuntu this seems to be 
not necessary. From "grub-install --help":

| --target=TARGET        install GRUB for TARGET platform
|                        [default=i386-pc]


Nils