8.04 won't boot

[mabovo]

I "had" Hardy installed on sda3 and still there booting from a Live CD but not from GRUB.

When this issue will be solved ? That is not my idea of an LTS distibution altough somebody can blame macbook's proprietary hardware.

[aab4ever]

I had the same problem, the time that I installed Ubuntu 8.04 on my MacBook 3,1. After installed ad reboot the black screen was coming "No bootable device" I updated the MBR with rEFIT. When I tried to boot ubuntu after that it just hang with penguin at a grey screen. Then I hold down my shutdown button and tried again and then it worked

[cyberdork33]

I had the same problem, the time that I installed Ubuntu 8.04 on my MacBook 3,1. After installed ad reboot the black screen was coming "No bootable device" I updated the MBR with rEFIT. When I tried to boot ubuntu after that it just hang with penguin at a grey screen. Then I hold down my shutdown button and tried again and then it worked

Yea I just had to powerdown and bootup again a couple times to get passed the Tux icon too... I think that I will modify that part of the how to a little bit.

[mabovo]

Yea I just had to powerdown and bootup again a couple times to get passed the Tux icon too... I think that I will modify that part of the how to a little bit.

I had to powerdown after an isight freeze and this action caused GRUB to mess with the partitions.

[cyberdork33]

I had to powerdown after an isight freeze and this action caused GRUB to mess with the partitions.

GRUB can't "mess" with you partitions... It has no capability to write to disk that I know of.

[mabovo]

Well, I have two tuxes on rEFIT menu and only one works. Need to reinstall Hardy again.

[cyberdork33]

Well, I have two tuxes on rEFIT menu and only one works. Need to reinstall Hardy again.

no you don't, you need to remove grub from the MBR because you have installed it to both the Ubuntu partition and to the MBR.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=811240