[Bug 964331] Re: Ubiquity chooses which drive to install to with no user input

[Jane Atkinson]

When I do a side-by-side install, it's immediately after an entire-drive
install. The existing install is on /dev/vda1 and there's nothing else
on the drive. (The drive is virtIO.)

The USB stick is /dev/sda. I'm not installing from the USB stick, by the
way. I'm using an ISO file as CDROM. I had simply forgotten to remove
the stick and then wondered why the VM didn't boot into the new install.

I noticed a similar thing when I was doing a manual install. Grub wanted
to install on /dev/sda. In this instance, I was able to get it to use
the correct drive manually.

My suspicion, for what it's worth, is that Ubiquity is using
alphabetical order to find the drive to install Grub to. Though I don't
know why it would default to the correct drive for the actual install,
and then change its mind, so to speak, for Grub install.


Unfortunately, I don't have a spare machine to do a bare-metal install to see if it does the same thing there.

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Title:
  Ubiquity chooses which drive to install to with no user input

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I was testing Precise beta 2 live ISO, using the "Install Ubuntu
  alongside" option.

  I have two internals drives, and both of them have other systems on
  them.

  Ubiquity didn't ask me to choose which drive. I got a message to the
  effect that it was installing to /dev/sdb but NO "Are you sure?" It
  just went ahead and started installing. The only way to stop that
  seems to be to reboot.

  I would expect the user to be able to check that everything is OK
  before proceeding.

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