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Article #871Re: Ubuntu Hardy - no bootloader
From: Doug Laidlaw
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:52
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:52
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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. > Have you tried doing a Custom partition install and then creating the > partitions for boot , swap and / (root) ? > I have separate partitions for / and /home, and re-use my Mandriva swap partition. Doug. -- Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. - Helen Keller
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X-Google-Thread: 102983,a8a48f0cd5b18bf2 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.kjsl.com!news.exile.org!abnormal.com!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!lon-spool.news.telstra.net!reader.news.telstra.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <mrvpr5-pnr.ln1@dougshost.douglaidlaw.net> From: Doug Laidlaw <doug@dougshost.invalid> Subject: Re: Ubuntu Hardy - no bootloader Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux Reply-To: laidlaws@hotkey.net.au Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:52:22 +1100 References: <ottor5-11r.ln1@dougshost.douglaidlaw.net> <48e9d71d$0$22595$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Lines: 31 NNTP-Posting-Host: 58.178.195.250 X-Trace: 1223316101 lon-reader.news.telstra.net 8881 58.178.195.250