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08-19-2007, 01:01 PM
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The Bulldog Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In an empty Ramen packet Posts: 4,370
|  Grub install failed.
I was installing Kubuntu on a partition on my hard drive today. It is a Western Digital SATA hard drive split up into one NTFS partition for windows and an EXT3 for Linux. At the very end of installation it started to install grub but failed and encountered a fatal error. Does anyone know whats wrong and how I can get grub to install? | 
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08-19-2007, 05:38 PM
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The Bulldog Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In an empty Ramen packet Posts: 4,370
| Re: Grub install failed.
An update. i went to the ubuntu forums and went through about 5 different ways to manually install grub and it still will not work. I get this error that stage1 doesn't exist. anyone ever have this problem?
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08-19-2007, 07:47 PM
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Super Techie Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 489
| Re: Grub install failed.
yeah, i had that problem, but i just ended up reinstalling.
there is a grub-install command in the terminal.
__________________ Torvalds was contemptuous of Microsoft's claims and has asked Redmond to name the patent infringements so that their veracity can be challenged and workarounds found.
"Naming them would either make it clear that Linux is not infringing at all (which is quite possible, especially if the patents are bad), or would make it possible to avoid infringing by coding around whatever silly thing they claim,"
"So the whole 'We have a list and we're not telling you' should tell you something. Don't you think that if Microsoft actually had some really foolproof patent, they'd just tell us and go, 'nyaah, nyaah, nyaah!'?"
whole story here: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21...-microsoft-put | |
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08-19-2007, 08:22 PM
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The Bulldog Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In an empty Ramen packet Posts: 4,370
| Re: Grub install failed.
I ran it. and it still failed. Its almost like grub doesn't know what to do with my hard drive. even after i manually mount the right directory, it still cant find the files.
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08-20-2007, 10:14 PM
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Super Techie Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 489
| Re: Grub install failed.
when i had the problem, it was when i was installing wolvix on my flash drive (which is an excellent live distro and the best for flash drive booting) but instead of selecting the flash drive, i accidentally clicked my hard drive. as soon as it started "formatting 40gb IDE-0" i knew what i had done and clicked cancel, but the damage was done. i opened up gparted, and luckily it still said that there were like 4gb used, so the data was saved, but it was all gone when i opened it in the file browser. i couldn't find a way to recover it, so i just reinstalled.
__________________ Torvalds was contemptuous of Microsoft's claims and has asked Redmond to name the patent infringements so that their veracity can be challenged and workarounds found.
"Naming them would either make it clear that Linux is not infringing at all (which is quite possible, especially if the patents are bad), or would make it possible to avoid infringing by coding around whatever silly thing they claim,"
"So the whole 'We have a list and we're not telling you' should tell you something. Don't you think that if Microsoft actually had some really foolproof patent, they'd just tell us and go, 'nyaah, nyaah, nyaah!'?"
whole story here: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21...-microsoft-put | |
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08-21-2007, 07:01 PM
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The Bulldog Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In an empty Ramen packet Posts: 4,370
| Re: Grub install failed.
That stinks but that has little to do with my situation. I manually mounted Sda5 in the terminal. and went to the directory with grub stage1. and everything was good. then i did sudo grub and tried to access it and grub said file does not exist. i can access and modify it in konquerer and see it in bash, why cant grub use it?
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08-21-2007, 09:14 PM
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Super Techie Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 489
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ok, sorry, i thought your data was completely gone. but i had a similar situation, where after i lost all the data i had the same grub error. is your partition table messed up? can you access your data on the hard drive from a boot cd?
you might want to boot of the xp cd, go into the recovery console, and type: fixmbr
then reinstall kubuntu.
__________________ Torvalds was contemptuous of Microsoft's claims and has asked Redmond to name the patent infringements so that their veracity can be challenged and workarounds found.
"Naming them would either make it clear that Linux is not infringing at all (which is quite possible, especially if the patents are bad), or would make it possible to avoid infringing by coding around whatever silly thing they claim,"
"So the whole 'We have a list and we're not telling you' should tell you something. Don't you think that if Microsoft actually had some really foolproof patent, they'd just tell us and go, 'nyaah, nyaah, nyaah!'?"
whole story here: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21...-microsoft-put
Last edited by kpmwrestler; 08-21-2007 at 09:16 PM.
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08-21-2007, 09:47 PM
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The Bulldog Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In an empty Ramen packet Posts: 4,370
| Re: Grub install failed.
Ive already done that. the weird thing is. even after i did a fix mbr and reformatted that partition. when i boot i have the windows vista boot loader. could it be vista that is messing with my mbr and stopping grub from working?
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08-22-2007, 03:38 PM
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Super Techie Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 489
| Re: Grub install failed.
what i am thinking the problem is, you made your own partition. ubuntu/kubuntu will shrink the windows partition automatically. and then at the end of the installation you might have selected the wrong partition to install grub on.
so you should probably delete the linux partitions, and resize the windows partition to take up the whole hard drive. then try installing kubuntu and at the end, when it asks where to install grub make sure "mbr" is selected.
other than that, i don't understand why it wouldnt work.
__________________ Torvalds was contemptuous of Microsoft's claims and has asked Redmond to name the patent infringements so that their veracity can be challenged and workarounds found.
"Naming them would either make it clear that Linux is not infringing at all (which is quite possible, especially if the patents are bad), or would make it possible to avoid infringing by coding around whatever silly thing they claim,"
"So the whole 'We have a list and we're not telling you' should tell you something. Don't you think that if Microsoft actually had some really foolproof patent, they'd just tell us and go, 'nyaah, nyaah, nyaah!'?"
whole story here: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21...-microsoft-put
Last edited by kpmwrestler; 08-22-2007 at 03:58 PM.
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08-22-2007, 06:53 PM
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The Bulldog Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In an empty Ramen packet Posts: 4,370
| Re: Grub install failed.
No. what i did was i had two ntfs partitions from the get go. what i did was reformat #2 as ext3 and installed grub to the mbr. unfortunately grub keeps encountering error.
this sint the first time i have ever installed linux. but its the first time i have done it with this computer and with a SATA hard drive. | |
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