I just bought a new laptop yesterday and it came with "Beasta" premium preinstalled. Now I'm trying to get Kubuntu feisty running on it and the installation stops with a fatal error saying that it can't install grub. Does anyone now how I can work this out and get the OS running?

Hey Yoda, I should really ignore you for even *admitting* you are trying Bill's latest piece of malware. However, I'm a forgiving soul...hehehehe

Have a look at

http://apcmag.com/5046/how_to_dual_b...nstalled_first

There is an issue with the bootloader...this may help, but you may have to resort to a reload of windows, so I hope you have the discs....



Jimbo

I said that I just bought the laptop b/c I really needed one and I am still new to *nix. I love Linux however for work I still need windows to run some high-end graphics and 3D software. Trust me if I could just ditch "Beasta", dude...in a heartbeat.
Umm..this article uh they can actually install GRUB. I can't. It throws a fatal error when I try to install it.

"The source code for GRUB, and the ext3 filesystem are available for ms to inspect / learn how to co-exist with. The same does not apply to vista / ntfs. You'd have to ask ms why unpaid volunteers can reverse engineer ms trash, but ms can't read freely available source code to achieve the same end."

Damn

Hey Yoda.
This is what I would do:
You have already Vista premium installed so you have a product key for it. I would investigate getting a DVD copy of Vista Premium from "a friend", and then wipe your hard-drive including the rescue partition that will be installed there. Then reinstall Vista from the CD (after partitioning your hard-drive) and then install Ubuntu. This should work, and as far as I am aware is perfectly legal because you have a OEM key for Vista (don't quote me on that). If it doesn't work (i.e Vista won't install) then I'm sure you must have an old copy of XP to hand . Vista sucks ass anyway, eats CPU and doesn't look half as good as Feisty with Beryl running.

Will do. I thought about that but I already installed some proggys that I need. I guess this is my only option now. Thanks everyone.

I wiped the hard drive, partitioned and attempted an install. I still get the same friggin error! Grub is being stubborn. "Beasta" is gone but it still won't go. Does anybody know what's going on?

a couple of links on
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phbc50/howto...reinstall_grub
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...tallingWindows
i hope they are of assistance.
and here is a link to the super grub disk also helpfull

http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzo...bDiskPage.html

Hi,
I would guess that grub is being installed on the MBR..If so
does you bios settings allow the MBR to be overwritten?
jolphil