[ltp] bizzare: X121e: installations fails: grub

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Uwe Brauer <oub.oub.oub@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> This is a very bizarre problem.
>
> =A0 =A0- =A0I installed on a brand new X121e (without an OS)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 Kubuntu 10.04.
>
> =A0 =A0- =A0I inserted an additional 4 giga RAM.
>
> =A0 =A0- =A0I installed windows 7, which made a strange partition
> =A0 =A0 =A0 of the hard disk:
> =A0 =A0 =A0 /dev/sda1 fat32 small
> =A0 =A0 =A0 /dev/sda2 fat32 small
> =A0 =A0 =A0 /dev/sda3 ntfs big windows 7 installation and of
> =A0 =A0 =A0 course deleted me previous linux installation.
>
> =A0 =A0- I tried to install Kubuntu 11.04 (either 64 or 32 bit)
> =A0 =A0 =A0in all cases everything went smooth. Grub however was
> =A0 =A0 =A0to be installed per default not in the MBR but in
> =A0 =A0 =A0/dev/sda
> =A0 =A0 =A0and exactly at the end of the installation I obtained
> =A0 =A0 =A0the error message
> =A0 =A0 =A0grub cannot be installed in /dev/sda this is a serious
> =A0 =A0 =A0error.
>
> =A0 =A0- =A0so I repeated the installation selecting /dev/sda4
> =A0 =A0 =A0 where linux is going to live as a target but I
> =A0 =A0 =A0 obtained at the end of the installation process the
> =A0 =A0 =A0 same error message.
>
> I never encountered anything like this.
> Does anybody have an advice?

x120e's at least (and probably x121e's too) boot in EFI mode when the
OS is 64 bit, so you need to set up the proper EFI boot partitions and
such.

Alex