Yes, it think grub doesn't install into the disk's MBR correctly. I did
a manual partitioning as I wanted to keep the /home drive from the
previous install. There's only one disk ( /dev/sda ) and I partitioned
it like this:

SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 320 GB ATA WDC WD3200BEVT-2
   No. 1 primary     4.0 GB    F  Swap   Swap
   No. 2 primary    30.0 GB B F  ext4   /
   No. 3 primary    286.1 GB      ext4   /home

After running `grub-install /dev/sda` manually it exits with:
»Installation finished. No errors reported.«

Grub is version 1.98~20100101-1ubuntu1. I tried the x64 live cd and x64
alternate cd. The system I use is a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Si 3655 and
after searching around for other people having this issue I found a
forum thread [1] suggesting to install to /dev/sda2 additionally. So I
did a `grub-install /dev/sda2 --force` despite the warning that
installing to a partition instead to MBR is a bad idea. I got the
warning »Embedding is not possible. Grub can only be installed in this
setup using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and its use
is discouraged.«

Surprisingly, it work's now.

[1] http://www.amilo-forum.de/topic,26887,-No-Operating-System-
Found.html

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