[Bug 985971] Re: Ubiquity failed to install grub in precise 20120419.1

[Jane Atkinson]

I was doing the "install alongside" option, which doesn't give the user
any choice as to which drive is used (which is one of the things I don't
like about it). That appears to apply to grub installation as well as OS
installation.

The machine has two sata drives, /dev/sda (80GB) and /dev/sdb (500GB).
/dev/sdb is the drive with my working installations and I'm using the
other one for ISO testing. Usually, grub gets installed to /dev/sda

On this occasion, I was installing from a 1GB SD card, which I think
would have been /dev/sdc. That's the only one that's removable.

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Title:
  Ubiquity failed to install grub in precise 20120419.1

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This happened during an install alongside an existing one. On
  rebooting after the installation, the previous test install booted
  instead of this one. Running "update-grub" from that install allowed
  me to reboot into the fresh installation.

  I got suspicious when running apt-get update as part of the testing
  routine produced a complete reload of the package lists from the
  repos, and looked further. But someone who was installing alongside
  Windows for the first time might well be thinking that nothing had
  happened at all.

  Apart from that, it seems to be running correctly.

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