booting system ends at grub> is ubuntu 9.10, on laptop with existing xp in sda1, sda2 was Red Hat replaced with ubuntu,(grub was with Red Hat bafore). sda3 is swap. install of ubuntu was done inculding formatting volume to ext3. I am able to manually use grub commands to get system up to xp, but need grub to work as expected.... is there a good simple method for accomplishing this?

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Binary package hint: ubiquity

Grub freezes after install. at grug> System had existing sda1 with XP, sda2 was 64bit Red hat. Formatted that partition to ext3 and installed ubuntu 9.10. note sda3 is swap and sda4 is an nfs file volume for sharing. Previous Grub had been working on this system as loaded when Red Hat was put onto system prior to installation of ubuntu.

I have been able to get xp up through cammand line from grub step by step. and could likely do the same for ubuntu. What is needed is reasonable method for repairing Grub install when failure of this nature occurs.

What would be simple method from this point?

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jan 20 15:56:20 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: ubiquity 2.0.8
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity gtk_ui
ProcEnviron: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/proc/4328/environ'
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', 'gtk_ui']
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Title: ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_user()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups:

XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:3701): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:3701): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:3757): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3788): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

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