9.10 w/ grub1 not grub2

[edg3]

Hi there,

Today I decided to do a fresh install moving from Ubuntu 9.04 Server to 9.10 Desktop, and because it was a fresh install I expected everything to go smoothly. Nothing went wrong with the install, but the grub2 just hangs on "loading grub". I went through the suggestion I found by google'ing (such as on the bug report page for this specific issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/441941) but didnt get any better result then just "grub loading".

My question is this, what is the easiest way to install Grub1 to my MBR?

I imagine it is some combination of grub and grub-install, but have not yet found anywhere that explains how to install grub. (I did follow how to install grub using a livecd, and did it, but it was for grub2 and so it didnt help).

I have reverted to 9.04 for now to be able to boot into windows 7 till I sort 9.10 out for my dev work.

Thanks
edg3

 

[milomak]

check to see if there is a packag called grub-legacy. if there is, I suspect it is a case of removing grub2 and installing grub-legacy.

you would need to do this from a livecd by chrooting into your install.

 

[edg3]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 - I found this page and followed the guide for reverting to grub legacy but had no luck. It for some reason doesnt like sda and sdb as grub-install locations. (sda1, etc all state that I dont have the required /boot folder).

I mounted /dev/sda to /mnt/a and checked there, there was all the windows boot stuff there, and assume this is where the /boot folder must be, so I made the boot folder there, but I cannot run grub-install to that location.

Is this because I was using the liveCD? hould I be doing the install as per this but use the same steps to chroot into my install as shown in this guide?

 

[kingrob]

I also reverted back to Ubuntu 9.04, just a bit sad about all the updates that you have to do again.

 

[ponder]

I also reverted back to Ubuntu 9.04, just a bit sad about all the updates that you have to do again.

Hopefully they will do a point release for 9.10 so people can get a new up to date iso.

 

[milomak]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 - I found this page and followed the guide for reverting to grub legacy but had no luck. It for some reason doesnt like sda and sdb as grub-install locations. (sda1, etc all state that I dont have the required /boot folder).

I mounted /dev/sda to /mnt/a and checked there, there was all the windows boot stuff there, and assume this is where the /boot folder must be, so I made the boot folder there, but I cannot run grub-install to that location.

Is this because I was using the liveCD? hould I be doing the install as per this but use the same steps to chroot into my install as shown in this guide?

Do you still have your install? If so can you post the output of:

$ sudo fdisk -l
$ sudo cat /etc/fstab