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11.04 won't boot (dual boot) after fresh install

Asked by shepscrook

I've got a laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit installed and I attempted to install 11.04 - 64bit this afternoon as a dual boot setup. The install went successful, however when the laptop rebooted, it went straight in to Windows. No GRUB, no option for booting into Linux. The partition was made, the files are there. I've tried installing grub from the LiveCD and this is the process I went to after that:

Open Terminal:
sudo grub
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0) (This is where it fails with) "No such file or directory"

I've set up other machines in the past with the dual boot and had no issues. This is throwing me off.

I'm also a "Beginner" with Linux/Ubuntu, and attempted to Google these things first before posting. Thus the reason why I found out GRUB was not installed and I had to sudo get-apt and install it.

What can I do next?

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#1

you can try downloading the alternate cd and booting off that.
select repair broken system. you might have to set up your keyboard, and time zone, etc.
the last step would be to "reinstall grub"

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shepscrook (shepscrook) said : 		#2

Well, at this point I've tried:

LiveCD (Install from within the "Try Ubuntu" option off of a CD
USB install
They are also 2 different ISO's that I've tried.

The re-install of grub didn't go through.

I've decided to forget dual booting at this time and just try a completely fresh full install of Ubuntu 11.04 on the drive, and after the install supposedly goes successful, it restarts and I have the "Blinking Cursor"

I've also tested the memory and it seems to be working fine.

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#3

http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2010/05/06/ubuntu-10-04-lucid-blank-screen-at-startup-workaround/
What is your graphic card ?
If you press <SPACE> immediately, do you get grub menu ?

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Goh Lip (gohlip) said : 		#4

Boot up 11.04 livecd and open terminal.
Check your ubuntu partition with "sudo fdisk -l" or "sudo blkid"

Let's say your ubuntu partition is /dev/sdax (hd0,x) x is a number

Then at terminal
sudo mount dev/sdax /mnt
sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda

You might want to read up
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275
grub2 has replaced grub-legacy

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