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tbobker
April 21st, 2012, 02:35 PM
I tried installing Ubuntu 11.10 on my DELL DIMENSION but i always got the the end of the install and had an error about installing bootloader.
I decided to get rid of RAID and just have 2 hard disks separate and used ATA. The install went great no errors, only now I just cant boot as it cant find the bootloader? Can anyone advise. Many thanks.

Hakunka-Matata
April 21st, 2012, 02:50 PM
Hello tbobker, tell us more. What happens when you attempt to boot?

Can you boot to the liveCD?

oldfred
April 21st, 2012, 05:01 PM
Hard drives keep RAID settings. You may have to remove those. Only run this if you do not want RAID.

Presence1960 on remove old raid setting from HD
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1325650
sudo dmraid -E -r /dev/sda
sudo dmraid -E -r /dev/sdb
Also check BIOS for raid settings
More discusion:
http://wwww.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9274738#post9274738

darkod
April 21st, 2012, 05:45 PM
If you are still willing to try raid, you need to install with the alternate cd not the standard live cd. The alternate has better raid support.