Comment 3 for bug 874216

crichton, thanks for looking at it.
The T40 is multiboot with Lucid, Meerkat, Narwhal, and the new Ocelot partly installed.
Wouldn't boot at all, just got grub rescue>
It would not recognize some of the grub rescue commands such as linux.
Flailed around for a couple hours with no luck. Then tried:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling%20from%20the%20LiveCD
Boot to the LiveCD Desktop.
Mount the partition with your Ubuntu installation. I picked one of the three available, Lucid.
sudo grub-setup -d /media/LucidLTS/boot/grub /dev/sda
reboot
Voila! Everything back again.

The partly installed 11.10 would come up as guest but pretty crippled, example no /etc/apt/sources.list.
Couldn't make a new user. What's the password for guest, anyway. Likely not worth pursuing.
 I'm writing a CD with the 20111011 image to see if it will install....

Jerry