Does not appear to install GRUB after Installation

[zwater]

Hello, recently i tried to install Kubuntu 12.04 on my computer, and after installing, It did not appear to install the bootloader at all.

I followed the instructions in this thread, but upon trying the first command, The terminal returned that mount point /mnt/kubuntu does not exist, and it seems that i need that in order to get anything else done, so i'm at a bit of a standstill. After running fdisk, the boot paritition, and the one labled linux is /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2 says extended, and /dev/sda5 for some reason says linux swap/solaris. These results are acheived after selecting the guided option to use the entire disk. I looked in the filesystem, and indeed, /mnt/kubuntu does not exist, and nothing works afterwards if i try with /mnt, so i'm not really sure what's going on. Any help would be great, because right now i've got a pretty useless computer with no bootloader.

[james147]

sudo mkdir /mnt/kubuntu

Or replace all instances of /mnt/kubuntu with /mnt

[zwater]

Now, even with just making that folder, isint there supposed to be some stuff inside there? Either way, I can't find out now because i realized there was an option to select where the bootloader is installed, i changed that to /dev/sda1 on a whim, weather or not it's right, i'm just playing around with it right now. The advantage of linux is that if you mess it up, you can just reinstall it!

[zwater]

UPDATE

Installed, rebooted, computer isin't even booting, it was kind of a gamble to begin with, so i'm doubting this is due to me installing linux because i just unplugged the hard drive and nothing has changed, i'll come back if i get this thing to work, oh and sorry for the double post.

ANOTHER UPDATE

I reseated everything, it starts up, isint saying boot error like before,it just says nothing, i'll boot the live disk again and do what you said

[vinnywright]

you will want to install grub (the boot loader) to sda ,,,,,not sda1 or2 or3

VINNY