>It may be enough to boot a live system, 'chroot' the root partition of the
installed system and 'grub-install'.
Yeah, back in the days of the struggle with the by design fucked up laptop, I
tried this together with a load of other common solutions and had 0 success,
no matter how I tried, grub simply would not install on the hard drive.
Acer also confirmed the BIOS they shipped the laptop with was 'buggy' and
that we could not do anything about it other than flash the newer BIOS and
try again.
All in all it was a positive experience though: I learned something new, I
managed to deliver at the end and the mate was happy and still is, I also
promised to my self to never ever buy anything from Acer again. All fun at
the end of the day. \o/
