OK. I installed Ubuntu 10.04 a week or so ago over an old Ubuntu partition - no problem. Grub went on fine (it had previously been overwritten by windows).
Then, after remembering how much I like Ubuntu and using a terminal I thought I'd upgrade to 10.10 and increase the size of my Linux partition (the ntfs partition on that drive was barely used).
After doing this I continued the Ubuntu installer... all was fine until near the end when I was told that it had failed to install Grub... I attempted to install it on any of my other partitions and they all failed with the same message (though I'm not convinced they even tried). I then went back to the 10.04 CD and tried that again, same error, grub wouldn't install anymore.
Is this due to grub already being in the MBR or have I broken something when I partitioned?
Partition table is below:
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xdeb64491
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 24352 195599609+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 24352 38560 114130859+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 38560 38914 2839553 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 38560 38914 2839552 82 Linux swap / Solaris
***Please note that I've since installed grub manually and have Ubuntu setup the way I like it, so I don't want to overwrite the whole install again if it's unnecessary. If I need to test any of these answers is it possible to do without reinstalling the system files?
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