I was able to repair the fresh installation by reinstalling grub2 and manually updating it.
>From a LiveCD where the new Karmic install is at /dev/sda5: sudo mkdir /mnt/karmic sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/karmic sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/karmic/dev sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/karmic/proc sudo chroot /mnt/karmic sudo grub-install /dev/sda sudo update-grub2 Restart and it should work. I don't know if the grub installation is running into an error during the clean installation. Is there any way to view the output in the regular desktop CD install? I could try the alternative CD, but I'm rather unexcited about installing again after finally fixing this. ** Summary changed: - grub2 cannot boot partition on sdb (hd1) + grub2 not properly installed when using other-than-first partition on a drive -- grub2 not properly installed when using other-than-first partition on a drive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441907 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
