I Installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a dell Inspiron 1501 along side windows vista using the windows installer but it wont boot into Ubuntu

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Published on 2012-06-04T05:13:07Z Indexed on 2012/06/04 10:51 UTC
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I Installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a dell Inspiron 1501 with an AMD 64 along side windows vista using the windows installer but it wont boot into Ubuntu. It shows that Ubuntu is on the system when my computer boots up but when I select it to load it goes into a black screen and displays some error messages and tells me that the is no operating system installed. this is the error that i get:

Try (hdo, 0):FAT16:no WUBILDR
try (hdo, 1)NTFS: error: "Prefix" is not set.
symbol not found:'grub_file_get_device_name'
Aborted.
Broadcom UNDI PXE-2.1 V2-1.0
copyright (c) 2000-2006 Broadcom corporation
copyright (c) 1997-2000 Intel corporation
All rights reserved

PXE-EC8:PXE structure was not found in UNDI driver code segment.
PXE-M0F Broadcom PXE Rom
Operating system not found

How can I fix this? I have tryed re-installing it but i get the same error.

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