Mine was a slightly different story. I couldn't get grub to find the stage1 file or even recognize my drive. So I borrowed some knowledge I picked up while using Gentoo:
You have to mount your root partition using the livecd:
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sudo mkdir /mnt/root
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sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda6 /mnt/root
Then you have to mount the proc subsystem and udev inside /mnt/root also:
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sudo mount -t proc none /mnt/root/proc
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sudo mount -o bind /dev /mnt/root/dev
Doing this allows grub to discover your drives. Next you have to chroot:
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sudo chroot /mnt/root /bin/bash
Now that you're chrooted into your drive as root everything should work.
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sudo grub
I edited in the sudo, just to be safe. When I enter grub and not sudo grub, grub cannot find the file. I do not know if the chroot changes this because I did not try it that way. In the end I figured it was better to err on the side of caution. Tosk I hope you don't mind my editing of your reply.
grub>
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find /boot/grub/stage1
It found mine on (hd0,5)
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grub>
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root (hd0,5)
It successfully scanned the partition and recognized the filesystem-type
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grub>
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setup (hd0)
That was it. It installed and on reboot I was thrown back into Ubuntu.
This might help some people who are having issues so I thought I would post it.
PLEASE NOTE: My Ubuntu was installed to /dev/sda6. This may not be the same for everyone. /dev/sdaX means it's SCSI/SATA/USB/FireWire drive. And it's partition 6 because I have a weird partitioning scheme in place.
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