Re: [Bug 1269728] Re: could not install grub bootloader (ubuntu-gnome)

2014-01-17 Thread Arnaud Ongenae
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

Re: [Bug 1269728] Re: could not install grub bootloader (ubuntu-gnome)

2014-01-17 Thread Arnaud Ongenae
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Arnaud On 2014-01-17 15:18, Phillip Susi wrote: On 1/17/2014 2:55 AM, Arnaud

[Bug 1269728] [NEW] could not install grub bootloader (ubuntu-gnome)

2014-01-16 Thread Arnaud Ongenae
Public bug reported: At the end of the installation of ubuntu-gnome 13.10, it failed to install the bootloader. The original disk was a SSD The installer allowed me to choose another disk, I tried without success on a normal drive. The partition are as follow, I asked the install to format

Re: [Bug 1269728] Re: could not install grub bootloader (ubuntu-gnome)

2014-01-16 Thread Arnaud Ongenae
such problem. I found that some people encounter the same but always in a dual-boot environment. I only have ubuntu on this system. I also read that it might be related to the disk alignment... Anyway, I'll keep searching, sorry if I wasted some of your time with this bug report. -- Arnaud Ongenae

Re: [Bug 1269728] Re: could not install grub bootloader (ubuntu-gnome)

2014-01-16 Thread Arnaud Ongenae
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-

Re: [Bug 1269728] Re: could not install grub bootloader (ubuntu-gnome)

2014-01-16 Thread Arnaud Ongenae
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