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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm surmising it is the Section on "I installed, but Ubuntu won't boot /
says "no bootable devices" / has a blinking cursor!" at
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1046568

<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1046568>Regards,

Phill.

On 6 March 2012 20:05, Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The current image (06 Mar) [1] installs fine when erasing the whole
> disk.  When the installation is done a second time, to auto-resize the
> partition, then the machine fails to boot, even though it had previously
> booted before the resize.  Eventually the icon of a blinking folder with
> a question mark comes up on the grey screen.
>
> If I boot the CD first and then select to boot from the first hard
> drive, I can boot the new partition.   I've tried running 'update-grub'
> but that seems to have no effect.
>
> Any suggestions about where to look for a work-around or a fix?  I
> figure this is worthy of a bug report, but need more information to have
> a chance at having it fixed.
>
> Regards,
> /Lars
>
> [1]
>
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/daily/20120306/precise-alternate-amd64+mac.iso
>
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