[Bug 484525] Re: Wrong information is given to the user about GRUB installation

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

** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  Wrong information is given to the user about GRUB installation

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: debian-installer

  Description: Ubuntu 9.10
  Release: 9.10

  There is a wrong information given to the user in the text version
  installer on the server cd and alternate cd (and I guess also on
  mini.iso netboot image).

  At the end of installation, installer asks if I want to install GRUB
  on the MBR. I chose no (I want it on volume boot record). Then it
  writes something like this (I do not want to perform 3rd installation
  again to see what the exact words were used):

  type "(hd0)" or "/dev/hda" if you want GRUB on the MBR of the first hard drive
  type "(hd0,1)" or "/dev/hda2" if you want GRUB on the second partition of the first drive
  ... etc ...

  Because I wanted to install GRUB on the the third partition I typed
  "(hd0,2)", and the installer overwrote boot sector of the SECOND(!)
  partition. Because, as I later found out, GRUB2 counts partitions from
  1 (not from 0).

  Not only installer forgot to emphasize that it will install GRUB2, and
  that the partitions in GRUB2 are counted from 1, but it also gave the
  wrong information: that the "(hd0,1)" is second partition (in GRUB1
  it's true, but not in GRUB2).

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