Got blue screen with a warning that I boot loader may not be properly configured, workaround?

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Published on 2012-04-07T22:59:50Z Indexed on 2012/04/07 23:29 UTC
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After running

sudo apt-get update

got this message:

Configuring grub-pc   
You chose not to install GRUB to any devices.  If you continue, the boot loader may not be properly   
configured, and when your computer next starts up it will use whatever was previously in the boot sector.
If there is an earlier version of GRUB 2 in the boot sector, it may be unable to load modules or handle
the current configuration file.   

If you are already running a different boot loader and want to carry on doing so, or if this is a special 
environment where you do not need a boot loader, then you should continue anyway.  Otherwise, you should
install GRUB somewhere. 

Continue without installing GRUB?   
<Yes>                                  <No>

Apparently there is a bug in ubuntu 10.04. But this hang the system. Any ideas on how to fix this? All I wanted was to install gcc that is missing.

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