First of all thank you for the follow-up.
Just for the sake of completeness here are all the step
- I had a running 12.10 ubuntu (normal version) that would have reach
end of life the 29th January.
The install was only on a SSD hard drive (64Gb)
- I acquired an refurbished 500Gb regular hard
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On 1/17/2014 2:55 AM, Arnaud Ongenae wrote:
At this stage, there are three available options * choose another
partition (I tried them all /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sdc /dev/sdc5)
* finish the installation without bootloader * cancel the
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Thank you for the follow-up. It feel like some personal training.
I learned a lot dealing with this problem.
I'll reconfigure the grub as suggested.
Again thank you
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On 2014-01-17 15:18, Phillip Susi wrote:
On 1/17/2014 2:55 AM, Arnaud
You tried to install grub to /dev/sda, which has no partitions. You
need to either create a partition there, or install grub to another
disk.
** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Invalid
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Thanks for the follow-up
However, I didn't issue the command myself, it's part of the normal
install... I simply clicked next in the wizard and at the last
moment, the installer fail and this error message is displayed.
I already installed tons of Ubuntu systems for more than 10 years
without
No worries. If you choose manual partitioning you can pick where to
install grub to so you can select another drive, otherwise just creating
a partition on sda ( and making sure your bios is set to boot from that
drive ) will do the trick.
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I have been doing some more research and I'm convinced that I'm in
this scenario:
http://pissedoffadmins.com/general/usrsbingrub2-bios-setup-warning-
sector-32-is-already-in-use-by-the-program-flexnet-avoiding-it-this-
software-may-cause-boot-or-other-problems-in-future-please-ask-its-
No, that is completely unrelated. That is about grub installing,
working, then being killed by some badly behaving Windows software.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1269728
Title:
Well, I definitely encounter all symptoms, all error messages
presented on these two web site and I could fix my situation with the
help given in the first web site followed by this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1581099
It's only after fixing my mbr with the commands given in the
This report says that grub failed to *install*. If you subsequently
resolved that in the way I stated and later got the error at boot time
after successfully booting windows, then yes, you ran into a second,
unrelated issue.
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