I made a really dumb mistake and removed my Berry .72 from the hard drive and tried to install .73. It failed, and I then could not get .72 re-installed. I found before that the only way I could get the Live CD installed to a hard drive was to make a separate 8 meg boot partition for Grub. The same technique did not work this time for either version of Berry. The installation always halted with no error message at the 80% point on GRUB install to root. MBR choice does not work either. I checked the location of Grub with the live CD and found it to be on the installation partition, not on the first. I have also tried installing without a separate partition for boot sector with no luck either. I would appreciate any help to get this one out of the mud.

I have the exact same problem, I am really itching to get this fixed, seems to me to be a rare problem. I also made the mistake of deleting the system I had before(FC5) from my laptop, I´ve tried to make a boot partition, in ext2, ext3 and fat16(can´t select fat32 for some reason).

My system is a Packard Bell Easy(yeah right)note something or the other. With a Pentium Celeron 1300Mhz CPU, intel chipset..

Everything seems to work well enough, but just can´t get past the grub bit. I have a suspicion that it could have something to do with the grub I have installed already, but afaik, and have experienced in the past, this shouldn´t be a problem...

If anyone knows a solution your help will be greatly appreciated!

I clean formatted the drive and started over, but I still could not get it to install, either with a boot partition or a single partition as stated before. There are several distros out there that have very aesthetic appeal, but Berry is really the one that I would like to toy with. Kanotix and Vector are my next two favorites. My latest try with a fresh install of Vector also ended up in the ditch. Fortunately, I did not make the same mistake of deleting my already functioning Vector, instead opting for another hard drive for the experiment.