Parted - Partitions was Re: can't boot fresh install

[Frank Murphy (Frankly3D)]

On 09/08/09 10:09, Alan Evans wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote:
>> No, I meant if you try and boot normally.
>> from the hard disk, without any cd\dvd
> 
> Sorry, I thought I must be misunderstanding your question. Removing
> the rescue disc from the CD drive results in:
> 
> DISK BOOT FAILURE,  INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
> 
>> Also can you post the output of
>> blkid
> 
> /dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
> /dev/sda2: UUID="58bff551-9c48-4de4-bdda-925c9723c5d7" TYPE="ext3"

This is my boot entry:
/dev/sda1: UUID="317b0355-e425-4c90-98a7-c770caa93780" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
TYPE="ext3"

It appears to be different from your above.
So it would appear there is definitely a problem with you partitions.
Sorry I'm not confident enough with parted as a cli to aid you.
Hopefully the subject line change will get someone more skillful involved.