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>From my post on ubuntuforums.org:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1466038


Quote:
Originally Posted by Lazy-buntu
When I upgraded to 10.04 it said something like install grub on every partition if you're not sure where to install it. I did on every partition on sda, but most failed. That's when I did a fresh install of Karmic.

Does that help narrow down the problem?


Reply:
OK, that was a mistake. The advice is bad. I do recall seeing the same thing, but I already knew to ignore it. Maybe you should register a bug that the text is misleading. At the very least, the 'install to partition' option should be buried within an 'Advanced users only' button.

So, basically what happened is when you installed grub to your windows
partition it pooched windows.

Anyway, first try oldfred's advice - I think he said you may have to do
it repeatedly.

If it still doesn't work, this link will do the trick...
http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBC...r+from+the+DVD



I'm working on solving my problem still.

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[karmic] grub re-writes boot sector on wrong drive on fresh install
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414996
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Status in Mythbuntu, Ubuntu derivative focused upon MythTV: Invalid
Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
I attempted to install mythbuntu karmic/9.10 alpha 4 to a USB drive.   Using a laptop with an IDE drive containing Windows XP, I booted from the ISO image CD-ROM and went through the installation, selecting manual partitioning, and creating a single EXT4 root filesystem on a USB drive.   The installation proceeded through the complete install to the USB key until instructed to reboot.

I re-booted the laptop with the USB key inserted, and was presented with the message "No bootable partition in table".  Then, removing the USB key and booting from the laptop IDE drive (which should not have been touched by the mythbuntu install) I get the message "GRUB loading.  Welcome to GRUB!  Entering rescue mode... error: no such disk"  followed by the "grub rescue>" prompt.  

I examined the laptop hard drive with a partition editor, and the Windows partition is still intact....  but it looks like the boot sector has been re-written mistakenly.

Now I have two problems.....
1) how do I get Windows on my laptop to boot again....  I need my work data!
2) how do I make my mythbuntu USB front-end install bootable?