Installer installs grub to wrong hard disk
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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debian-installer (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Tested on Dapper Flight 4 Kubuntu install CD. As the installation progressed to installing bootloader, the installed informed me that should be safe to install the boot loader to the master boot record of your first hard drive. As I confirmed the installation, it flashed in the screen that installing grub to (hd0).
After the boot, the computer was left in unbootable stage. I had to manually install grub to /dev/hdb (although the / partition is in /dev/hda (!)) to be able to boot the computer.
The installer text was misleading and/or there should be another way to configure the bootloader. Additionally, it is not clear to me why grub thinks that my hard first hard drive is /dev/hdb.
Motherboard used: ASUS A8N7X Deluxe (NForce 2 chipset)
Please ask for more information if needed.
I don't know if it is the same kind of bug, but whenever grub is updated it will set bootable flag to the wrong partition.
It should be set to hda1. Instead I'll have to switch it manually from hda4 (Windows partition) to hda1.