Reinstalled Ubuntu 10.10 it's a no go...

[Bruce Pieterse]

On Oct 10, 2011 7:21 PM, "Larry Shields" <larryesu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/09/2011 08:15 AM, Conny Enström wrote:
>>
>> 2011-10-08 23:10, Larry Shields skrev:
>>>
>>> *Well I went ahead and reinstalled ubuntu 10.10, now when it boots I am
>>> getting this:
>>> Reboot and Slect proper Boot device or insert Boot media in slected Boot

>>> device and press a key_
>>>
>>> Well now I have disabled the floppy drive & the CD-Rom drive the boot
>>> sequence is only 1 HDD whcih was saved in the setup bios, so why in the
>>> world is this happening...
>>>
>>> I have never had a problem like this before, and it is beating me to
>>> death, too many hours spending on it, trying to figure out why it will
>>> not boot correctly...
>>>
>>> Anyone have any idea...
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help you can offer - - I am using the Live CD to get on
>>> the Internet...
>>>
>>> Larry
>>> *
>>>
>> How to Restore the Grub Menu after a Re-Ghosting:
>>
>> 1. Boot from a Live CD, like Ubuntu Live, Knoppix, Mepis, or similar.
>>
>> 2. Open a Terminal. Go SuperUser (that is, type "su"). Enter root
passwords as necessary.
>>
>> 3. Type "grub" which makes a GRUB prompt appear.
>>
>> 4. Type "find /boot/grub/stage1". You'll get a response like "(hd0)" or
in my case "(hd0,3)". Use whatever your computer spits out for the following
lines.
>>
>> 5. Type "root (hd0,3)".
>>
>> 6. Type "setup (hd0,3)". This is key. Other instructions say to use
"(hd0)", and that's fine if you want to write GRUB to the MBR. If you want
to write it to your linux root partition, then you want the number after the
comma, such as "(hd0,3)".
>>
>> 7. Type "quit".
>>
>> 8. Restart the system. Remove the bootable CD.
>>
> Ok sorry for the delay, but I followed your directions, #3 the grub prompt
came up, so I typed in find /boot/grub/stage1 the response was Error 15:
File not found...
>
> So with that I could not continue...
>
> I just talked to a guy, who does repairs on PC's, and I told him what
problem that I was having, in that being only one 250gb HD connected to my
system, and installed Linux on this hd drive, I also mentioned that I had
told it to use the whole drive...Now he said that could be why it is not
booting up...I told him I have always done that and it has allways worked...
>
> He also mentioned to it could be the MBR needs to be installed...Now that
I am not sure of how to get it installed on this HD...???
>
> With this new motherboard the Biostar A780L3L, has been giving me
problems, in that it will after installing Ubuntu from the Live CD, it will
not boot this drive...Yes it is setup to be the first device too boot...
>
> Any help from anyone, maybe some one else has this same board, and he or
she can help me figure out what too do...Because I have spent many hours on
trying to get it to work, and I am about to try and send the board back if
they will take it...
>
> Thanks for any help on this matter...
>
> Larry
>
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Larry,

Did you manage to fix this problem? I'm assuming from the conversation on
this thread that grub was not installed properly. You can fix that by
chrooting into your installation on /dev/sda1 and reinstall grub. There is a
comprehensive tutorial for grub on wiki.ubuntu.com, however i don't have the
full URL at this time.

Perhaps googling for grub2 ubuntu wiki and following the instructions there
should help you.

Best of luck

Bruce
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