I'm quite happy at having been able to get the latest alpha 2 of Karmic, checked the MD5sum, burned the CD and installed it. The only problem was writing to the MBR. It claimed that it didn't work, allowed me to continue, I tried again, tried typing (hd0) which is really the same thing, tried both of the options, GRUB2 and GRUB, neither worked. The only difference GRUB did not give the option to continue.
After about a dozen attempts, I exited without installing GRUB. The CD was ejected, the computer rebooted into Karmic, which I'm using now, so the error message wasn't quite correct.
One other minor problem, is that it correctly detected my dual boot Kubuntu Jaunty, but the boot menu only had Karmic. That is easily fixed by copying the relevant entries from the /boot/grub/menu.list of Jaunty to Karmic.
Edit: changed title from 'GRUB2 or GRUB' to 'GRUB2'
After about a dozen attempts, I exited without installing GRUB. The CD was ejected, the computer rebooted into Karmic, which I'm using now, so the error message wasn't quite correct.
One other minor problem, is that it correctly detected my dual boot Kubuntu Jaunty, but the boot menu only had Karmic. That is easily fixed by copying the relevant entries from the /boot/grub/menu.list of Jaunty to Karmic.
Edit: changed title from 'GRUB2 or GRUB' to 'GRUB2'
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