Re-installed Hardy recently with the same problem. "GRUB" is shown on
the screen, but does not go to stage 2.
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#install states:
Several buggy BIOSes don't pass a booting drive properly when booting from a
hard disk drive. Therefore, you will unfort
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: grub
It appears that the Ubuntu installer installs grub by running setup (hd0),
which in turn runs the following command:
"install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+17 p
(hd0,0)/grub/stage2 /grub/menu.lst"
For some systems, this does