Solving the Grub instal error and freeze up at booting

I am totaly new to Linux and a friend recommended Pinguy OS 14.04
The live version works great, but getting the bootable version to work
was a lot harder. I used a dvd for installation.

After nearly finishing the installation, I got the grub cannot install error
and was left with a system that could not boot. After Grub was installed,
the system froze up when booting.
I tried so solve these problems 1st after rebooting, with the liveCD
but that didn't work. I also tried linux rescue disks but Grub wouldn't budge.

After 2 days of reading several forums, I came up with this solution
Hope I can help some other people with this.

Start liveCD.
install PinguyOS from the desktop.
If Grub fails, choose to accept the OS without grub and do the following.

So don't reboot yet

1st
If you are manually installing/reinstalling grub from your LiveCD,
the commands would look like this (this assumes your root drive is /dev/sda1)
Open a terminal window:

Quote:sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

then

Quote:sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda

don't reboot yet

2nd
To remove the freeze up during booting for the 1st time.
the error results come from the fake start-stop-daemon and the fake initctl.

To open a new terminal window with admin rights: (enter user password when asked)

Quote:sudo gnome-terminal

In the new terminal window enter:

Quote:apt-get install --reinstall dpkg upstart

After this close the new terminal when the program has finished.

Restart and all should be well