Grub not installing when Xubuntu installs

[NoOp]

On 06/13/2012 10:15 AM, Bill Stanley wrote:
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> I might be getting at the root of the problem.  I used super grub2 to 
> try to boot into the Linux installation.  It failed saying that 
> something was wrong in the installation.  I might have a bad 
> installation disk.  I used bit torrent to download and .iso file which 
> was then burned by Brasero.  Probably the install disk was corrupted 
> somewhere along the line.   The strange thing is that the installation 
> seemed to work OK.
> 
> Short story, I an downloading from a different source and trying the 
> installation again.  This time, I intend to look closely where grub 

Why not just use your Ubuntu LiveCD?
Reinstall grub2 if necessary:
<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2>
 <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Installing>

<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Installing#Reinstall_from_the_LiveCD>

> should go.  By the way, I checked my system BIOS and I can only boot 
> from the master hard drive, floppy drives  and other media but not the 
> slave HD. (Do computers still have floppy drives?  The computer I am 
> trying to reinstall certainly doesn't.)

Several of mine do:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/441835
[Clicking on floppy gives "no device media found" ]