Hi Theresa, If grub failed to install then you won't have any luck running commands with grub I suspect. Here's a couple of questions:
Where did you choose to install grub? Did you make your / partition bootable (I assume that's where the Linux kernel is since you didn't mention a seperate boot partition)? Grub will probably want to over-write the windows boot partition, with it's own info... is that the way you chose to install it? In short, a little more info please. John On 5/27/07, Theresa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been lurking on this mailing list for quite a while. As you may, or may > not, already know I've been doing this Edubuntu project for the past 4 months > in my local highschool for my bachelor degree. So far so good, everything > works like a treat with Edubuntu Edgy. > Now the school (the network admin) asked me to setup/install Edubuntu Feisty > on a local machine. The only condition is that Windows XP will still be > available, I've read lots of wikis and peoples reactions on dual boot, so I > didn't consider it much of a problem. > I began installing Edubuntu Feisty from the Desktop CD, in the partition menu > I chose > > sda1 (being the windows xp parition) ..... I didn't touch this. it's NTFS > format > sda2 (will be the linux partition) ......I think this was around 5gb as EXT3 > is my / partition > sda3 ...700mb as my SWAP partition > sda4 ..the rest of it probably around 15GB...EXT3 again as my /home partition > > The installation aborted at 94% prompted by the following error message > > "The execution of <<grub install (hd0) >> has failed. This is a serious > problem" ... something along these lines. > > At home I hooked up on IRC #edubuntu to get some answers to my problem. > So far I've tried > > sudo grub > find /media/disk-1/boot/grub/stage1 > ---> this caused: Error15: File not found > > I've also tried sudo grub-install /dev/sda2 > prompted by "The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly." > > I really don't know what to do right now. Is it impossible to install Edubuntu > Feisty on that machine? What caused these errors or why won't Grub install?! > > I'll appreciate ANY advice. > > Thank you in advance, > > Theresa > > -- > edubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel > -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
