GRUB installation fails (11.1 64bit)

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I installed 11.1 (64bit) this weekend, but the automatic GRUB installation fails, saying something like “Fatal error: Partition does not exist”. The installer continued once I choose “custom partition /dev/sda4” in the boot loader menu that appeared, but a restart then failed (BIOS says no bootable device found).

I tried to reinstall GRUB using the Repair option from the DVD, but all gave the same result.

Eventually I succeeded, by clicking on “Boot from MBR” and “Use Trusted Grub”. Now I can boot alright, but it is ugly. Unclicking “Use Trusted Grub” and changing other settings still only shows the ugly Text-Grub. Any ideas?

I am one a brand new Dell M4400 Laptop, which came with 3 partitions, of which I shrunk the last to arrive at the following setup:

/dev/sda1: FAT (some Dell Hardware tools)
/dev/sda2: NTFS (Windows Recovery)
/dev/sda3: NTFS (Windows Vista 32)
/dev/sda4: Extended
/dev/sda5: Swap
/dev/sda6: Ext3 /
/dev/sda7: Ext3 /home (Reduced inode size)
/dev/sda8: Ext3 (Encrypted, not yet mounted.)

(Also, /dev/sda1 is never listed, e.g. as custom partition or in the Add-Chainloader submenu. Weird, but I can boot it using the GRUB commandline.)

#2

STurtle wrote:

>
> I installed 11.1 (64bit) this weekend, but the automatic GRUB
> installation fails, saying something like “Fatal error: Partition does
> not exist”. The installer continued once I choose “custom partition
> /dev/sda4” in the boot loader menu that appeared, but a restart then
> failed (BIOS says no bootable device found).
>
> I tried to reinstall GRUB using the Repair option from the DVD, but all
> gave the same result.
>
> Eventually I succeeded, by clicking on “Boot from MBR” and “Use Trusted
> Grub”. Now I can boot alright, but it is ugly. Unclicking “Use Trusted
> Grub” and changing other settings still only shows the ugly Text-Grub.
> Any ideas?
>
> I am one a brand new Dell M4400 Laptop, which came with 3 partitions,
> of which I shrunk the last to arrive at the following setup:
>
> /dev/sda1: FAT (some Dell Hardware tools)
> /dev/sda2: NTFS (Windows Recovery)
> /dev/sda3: NTFS (Windows Vista 32)
> /dev/sda4: Extended
> /dev/sda5: Swap
> /dev/sda6: Ext3 /
> /dev/sda7: Ext3 /home (Reduced inode size)
> /dev/sda8: Ext3 (Encrypted, not yet mounted.)
>
> (Also, /dev/sda1 is never listed, e.g. as custom partition or in the
> Add-Chainloader submenu. Weird, but I can boot it using the GRUB
> commandline.)
>
>
Hello STurtle,

I have made a normal i386 install and get the same error. I wanted to report
my problem in Bugzilla and found than bug-report “Bug 450091 - GRUB Error
22”. It looks like you have the same problem

Regards / Groeten,
Frans