Comment 2 for bug 21186

Such a user would be me. I am clueless about GRUB.

I have one SATA drive and one IDE drive. That IDE had some old warty partitions
on it that were to be mouted somewhere in /media. When the installer tried to
install GRUB I had to tell it where to put it. I picked /dev/sda guessing that
that would be the right place (I was trying to injsall breezy on the SATA. The
IDE was a remnant from my old PC). Upon reboot, it said "file not found" when
trying to load thekernel image.

Next, I reinstalled breezy but this time removed the old warty partitions from
the IDE, leaving just the partition with my personal files. the installer did
not ask me where to put GRUB this time, but upon reboot it tried "root (hd1,0)"
and said "partition not found".

I managed to install it on the 3rd try by yanking out the flatcable from my IDE
drive, leaving only my SATA drive.