Comment 2 for bug 517121

Yes, it think grub doesn't install into the disk's MBR correctly. I did a manual partitioning as I wanted to keep the /home drive from the previous install. There's only one disk ( /dev/sda ) and I partitioned it like this:

SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 320 GB ATA WDC WD3200BEVT-2
   No. 1 primary 4.0 GB F Swap Swap
   No. 2 primary 30.0 GB B F ext4 /
   No. 3 primary 286.1 GB ext4 /home

After running `grub-install /dev/sda` manually it exits with: »Installation finished. No errors reported.«

Grub is version 1.98~20100101-1ubuntu1. I tried the x64 live cd and x64 alternate cd. The system I use is a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Si 3655 and after searching around for other people having this issue I found a forum thread [1] suggesting to install to /dev/sda2 additionally. So I did a `grub-install /dev/sda2 --force` despite the warning that installing to a partition instead to MBR is a bad idea. I got the warning »Embedding is not possible. Grub can only be installed in this setup using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and its use is discouraged.«

Surprisingly, it work's now.

[1] http://www.amilo-forum.de/topic,26887,-No-Operating-System-Found.html