pillar007
November 24th, 2009, 04:45 PM
I have been trying to install various versions of ubuntu on my eee 701 8g for a day now.
My first issue was that when installing it failed to mount the partition and would not proceed with the install. I solved this by manually creating a partition with 256MB of unallocated space at the beginning. Not sure why this worked but it did.
It worked until the install gets to 94% when it installs grub. Now I get the error "executing 'grub-install /dev/sda' failed." This cancels the installation.
Would installing grub manually bypass this problem?
I also tried to install windows, and it worked once about half way, and started the install processed but then crashed with a generic error, when I tried to install again it said that 'setup cannot read this disk.'
Thanks for your help!
My first issue was that when installing it failed to mount the partition and would not proceed with the install. I solved this by manually creating a partition with 256MB of unallocated space at the beginning. Not sure why this worked but it did.
It worked until the install gets to 94% when it installs grub. Now I get the error "executing 'grub-install /dev/sda' failed." This cancels the installation.
Would installing grub manually bypass this problem?
I also tried to install windows, and it worked once about half way, and started the install processed but then crashed with a generic error, when I tried to install again it said that 'setup cannot read this disk.'
Thanks for your help!