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Jagot
May 21st, 2011, 12:40 AM
I've been trying to install Natty (64) over the last couple of weeks and am having problems that I've never had with any distribution before. At the end of each install, I get the following error:


Executing 'grub-install /dev/sda' failed

It then gives me the option of installing grub somewhere else, which I don't want, but it doesn't work anyway, or leaving without a boot loader, which isn't really desirable.

At first I thought it might be something to do with my previously complicated quad-boot partition layout, so I simplified that to a fairly regular Windows and Ubuntu only, but no luck.

Grub also fails when attempting to upgrade 10.10.

I've tried restoring Grub2 using chroot amongst other things which doesn't work.

Any ideas what's going on here?

Dutch70
May 21st, 2011, 12:49 AM
Have you tried running...

sudo grub-install --recheck /dev/sda