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Re: Ubuntu Hardy - no bootloader

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From: Doug Laidlaw
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.
-- 
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From: Doug Laidlaw <doug@dougshost.invalid>
Subject: Re: Ubuntu Hardy - no bootloader
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Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:52:22 +1100
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