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Yes, I'm giving it a try. I recently picked up a Dell GX270 for $50, and I decided to use it to give Ubuntu a try. I downloaded Ubuntu Studio so it would have a bunch of audio/video programs already installed.

The whole installation went fine, but failed right at the very end when installing the GRUB boot loader. The problem is that it didn't really give any helpful errors to tell me what was wrong, it just said that it failed. I just got one screen that said "Unable to install GRUB in (hd0)", then another that said something like "failed when executing 'grub-install (hd0)' This is a fatal error."

So now the whole thing is installed but I can't boot the OS. Any ideas (expressed in words that complete Linux noob would understand)?


I got something similar when I first attempted to install a modified WinXP distro to a USB drive. Very obscure and non-helpful lack of messages.

The obvious suggestion is to try the non-modified Ubuntu image, rather than an unsupported outside hack of Ubuntu. So, pull down the real Ubuntu-7.04 live disc and install from that. Afterward, you can point and click to add on any apps you need, including A/V stuff.

If the standard Ubuntu installer also fails (unlikely), then the Ubuntu support forums can help, as can more people here. But I don't have (or want) a copy of the hacked version.

Oh, and my WinXP issue? I eventually fixed it.

Cheers