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Article #860Re: Ubuntu Hardy - no bootloader
From: Avid Fan
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:40
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:40
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Sandgroper wrote: > "Doug Laidlaw" <doug@dougshost.invalid> wrote in message > news:ottor5-11r.ln1@dougshost.douglaidlaw.net... >> I have tried to install Ubuntu Hardy original from both a CD and a DVD, and >> Xubuntu from CD. In all cases, the installer crashes before the >> bootloader >> is created, and I am sent to the LiveCD desktop. Grub packages are >> installed, but there is no /boot/grub directory. Attempts to create the >> directory and its contents fail. I seem not to be alone with this >> problem, >> but it plainly doesn't affect everybody. All that I could find on the Web >> were forlorn cries for help. The docos don't get so basic. >> > > Yeah , I have heard some people giving up on Hardy and going back to the > previous version. What? Hardy Heron 8.04 is as stable as you can get. My guess is there is something wrong with with the Windows partition. Are you dual booting? If so boot up in Windows and let it go to do what ever it has to do then use the Ubuntu Live CD. What hardware are you using? > Have you tried doing a Custom partition install and then creating the > partitions for boot , swap and / (root) ? >
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