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[Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/6/12 10:54 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> 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

No cursor, it doesn't get that far.  It gets the normal grey screen that
you get when you power on the machine and then after a while it gives a
blinking folder icon with a question mark on it.

As mentioned, one partition is reachable by booting via CD.

Regards,
/Lars

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> 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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