New Install help needed

[twister2k33]

Maybe someone can help me. I'm new to Linux but have been looking online for days for a solution to my issue and nothing has helped.

I have a pavillion HPE-570F with AMD Phenom with 2tb hdd. I did a fresh install of UBUNTU 11.04 using the entire hard disk (I am not dual booting. I chose option to erase entire hdd and install Ubuntu). Ubuntu installs fine but when I reboot after installation, I get a Error: File Not Found and Grub Rescue Prompt.

I have re-installed at least 5 times and the same issue occurs every time. I boot to a grub rescue CD and it is unable to find any operating systems or grub files. However, when I boot to the live CD I used to install, it sees all those files and directories that were installed. (when booting to the live CD, the hdd files are located in /media/<long string of numbers and letters>

I've tried all the suggestions at ubuntu grub 2 link (I'm not allowed to post urls yet) so I'm at a loss what could be wrong.

For the record I installed Fedora 15, Redhat, and Centos and they all work fine. The issue is with Ubuntu and that's the distro I really want to use.

Anyone seen this issue and have any idea how to resolve it? I can add more information if needed but since I'm a noob I'm not really sure what would be helpful.

[jackgreenking]

I am not sure it will help but worked for me before.

grub resume> set
prefix=(hd0,1)/grub
root=hd0,1
set root=hd0,1
set prefix=(hd0,1)/boot/grub
set
root=hd0,1
prefix=(hd0,1)/boot/grub
insmod /boot/grub/normal.mod
normal

i think you should update grub

[Tsquad]

Have you tryd re-burning or re-downloading the image. It sounds like something is going on with the grub install. Unfortunately, I dont know what that would be. If you cant fix it, you can always try linux mint 11. Its based off ubuntu, but I like it better.

[jayd512]

Hello and Welcome!

When you downloaded the .iso file, did you check the md5sum?
I also think that re-burning, at a slower speed, may help. Or trying new media.

[oz]

Hello and welcome!

You can check the following link to make sure that you downloaded and burned the iso file to disk properly:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ins...ll-cd-dvd.html

Be sure that you are installing GRUB to the MBR.