Bootloader error Ubuntu 12.04, system goes to Grub-rescue instead of booting

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Published on 2012-08-15T13:34:33Z Indexed on 2012/10/03 9:50 UTC
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I am trying to install ubuntu 12.04 on my system but it is constantly giving me bootloader install fail error. I have tried to lot to solve this issue but reading articles over the internet but still no gain.

Firstly since the bootloader was not getting installed I tried to install it on all the alternative paths given in the installer, failing with I selected install ubuntu without bootloader.

Then I tried to manually install bootloader via terminal at try ubuntu via grub-install, but I was not able to do that. Then I tried using boot-repair and it was also not able to install the bootloader because after it my system shows grub-rescue.

I tried to use boot-repair and install bootloader on a seperate partition mounted to /boot and still my system is booting and it still shows grub-rescue.

The error which my system shows during boot is:

Error : no such device : 04ac0510-bd4f-43b8-b885-b885-11c4dec21db8

I am not dual booting and ubuntu is the only OS I am installing.

I am using Raid 0 with two blue western digital hard drive so I am not sure whether it is right or not.

The details given by boot-repair are in the below mentioned link; http://paste.ubuntu.com/1147208/

Afterwards, I made one more change I installed ubuntu again and this time I installed the bootloader at a different partition on /boot. After this the bootloader error has gone but I am still not able to boot to ubuntu as I get the same error I was getting before.

I have not installed dmraid, I feel it is neccessary for Raid0, but I thought ubuntu already has Raid drivers. Moreover in the dmraid installation instructions for 12.04, I used the one for 10.04 and selected to install bootloader at the partitions from the dropdown. This time the installation finished normally without an error but still I am not able to boot my system as the same error shows during booting this time also.

Now I am stucked and I have no clue on how I can boot my system.

Please tell me how can I boot my system.

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