[Bug 360898] Re: boot record written to wrong partition

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

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

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Title:
  boot record written to wrong partition

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  I installed the 9.04 beta AMD64 on my Thinkpad x61t.

  Using "advanced" on one of the screens (I forget which one), I
  specified that grub's boot record should be installed on /dev/sda9
  (the only choice besides /dev/sda) (I admit that I don't remember if
  the terminology was actually (hd0) vs (hd0,8)).

  I then tried to boot the machine.  It should have booted Ubuntu 8.10
  since the master boot record was still set to booting /dev/sda4.
  Instead, it hung.

  To fix this, I booted the 9.04 beta live CD, used fdisk to move the
  boot flag to /dev/sda3.  I then booted the grub on that partition
  (8.04) and got it to use the 8.10 grub menu and thus booted 8.10.  I
  then fixed the boot record using 8.10's grub-install.

  Summary: the installer somehow broke the bootloader on a partition it
  should not have touched.

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