[Bug 176605] Re: boot fails if installed to other drive

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[Expired for lupin (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
days.]

** Changed in: lupin (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  boot fails if installed to other drive

Status in Lupin, the loop installer:
  Incomplete
Status in “lupin” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  re: beat wubi-installer 7.04 and alpha for 710 (unsure which build).
  3 people (Larry, Marvin, Alan) working on 2 situations.

  environ 1: Windows xp with drives C:, D:, F:, C: is the active boot
  drive, user used the beta 7.04 installer and selected to install to
  drive F:.  Installer completed but reboot did not show the option to
  boot ubuntu.  The user ended up re-installing to the C: drive
  successfully.

  environ 2: Drive has a small DOS partition as Drive C: and is the
  active boot partition.  Drive D: has Win 2K installed.  User used one
  of the alpha wubi-installers for 7.10 (may have been build 381) and
  installed to drive D: with the same result.  In this case it was
  determined that there was a boot.ini on each drive.  The one on the
  active boot partition (C:) contained the expected entry for Win 2K
  while the one on the D: contained only an entry for ubuntu-linux.

  Tentative hypothesis is that the installer updates boot.ini based on
  the drive the user selects to install the Windows file for the virtual
  drive rather than where Windows has placed it which was probably
  decided by the windows install based on the active primary partition.

  Impact should be considered high due to the non technical nature of
  much of the target audience.  One short term solution might be to
  recommend users only install to Drive C (assuming it is the partition
  marked as active).

  We will continue to experiment tomorrow.  At that time I will verify
  the the %SYSTEM% variable for environ 1 points to C: and for environ 2
  points to D:

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