Resolution (workaround?) Follow-up to my previous post. Here's what I did to get it working:
I suspected the problem may have been that I used the Partition Editor on the Live CD to resize my /home partition prior to Ubuntu 8.10 installation. Specifically, before I installed Ubuntu 8.10, I did this: /dev/sde1 = ntfs (Windows XP) - 32GB <I used Partition Editor to reduce the size of the ntfs partition from 128GB to 32GB> /dev/sde2 = linux-swap - 2GB <I deleted this partition and then re-created it from the pool of empty space. /dev/sde4 = ext3 root (/) - 16GB <I deleted this partition and then re-created it from the pool of empty space. /dev/sde3 = ext3 home (/home) - 175GB <I increased the size of this partition using the Partition Editor> My personal data was already backed-up, so I decided I would delete and re-create all my Linux partitions. I re-created them with the same size and the same order. I left the Windows XP partition alone. Thus: /dev/sde1 = ntfs (Windows XP) <left untouched> /dev/sde2 = linux-swap <I deleted and re-created the partition> /dev/sde4 = ext3 root (/) <I deleted and re-created the partition> /dev/sde3 = ext3 home (/home) <I deleted and re-created the partition> Then I re-ran the Ubiquity installer from the Live CD. After it finished, the /boot/grub directory was where it was supposed to be. So the variable for me appears to be that I had re-sized partitions using the Partition Editor prior to installing. I expect that the large number of hard drives I have installed on my machine may have been a complicating factor as well. -- no grub installed when installing ubuntu 8.10 alpha3 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/253323 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
