[Bug 389194] Re: Poor choice of device for installing GRUB

[Craig Hansen]

Sigh...Do we have to now discuss how the manual partitioning mode
doesn't fill in defaults from automatic partitioning, or should we stick
to the problem that the installer makes a poor choice of device for
installing GRUB, provides insufficient feedback about the choice, and
doesn't allow the user to easily change the choice?

----- Original Message -----
From: Phillip Susi
Sent: 01/13/14 03:51 PM
To: craig.hansen at mail.com
Subject: [Bug 389194] Re: Poor choice of device for installing GRUB

The manual partitioning mode gives the option of where to install grub.
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bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389194 Title: Poor choice of
device for installing GRUB Status in One Hundred Papercuts: Invalid
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: My
laptop runs Windows. But I booted up a Ubuntu LiveCD and installed to a
Flash Drive. Surprisingly, GRUB got put onto my Windows hard drive
instead of my Flash Drive. This was absolutely not what I'd expect,
because one reason for installing to a USB device is to be able to have
a portable Ubuntu installation. After Googling for a while I found out
that I had to use the "Advanced" button to select a different location
for installing GRUB. It would be much more new-user-friendly if the step
where you choose the device on which to install Ubuntu would (1)
automatically select the device you're installing to as the place to put
GRUB AND (2) Output a message something like "GRUB will be installed on
<your device>. Use the "Advanced" button to specify a different
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Title:
  Poor choice of device for installing GRUB

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Invalid
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  My laptop runs Windows. But I booted up a Ubuntu LiveCD and installed to a Flash Drive. Surprisingly, GRUB got put onto my Windows hard drive instead of my Flash Drive. This was absolutely not what I'd expect, because one reason for installing to a USB device is to be
  able to have a portable Ubuntu installation. After Googling for a while I found out that I had to use the "Advanced" button to select a different location for installing GRUB.

  It would be much more new-user-friendly if the step where you choose the device on which to install Ubuntu would
  (1) automatically select the device you're installing to as the place to put GRUB
  AND
  (2) Output a message something like "GRUB will be installed on <your device>. Use the "Advanced" button to specify
  a different location."

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