Grub not installing when Xubuntu installs

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:40:37 +1200
chris <chevhq at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 03:41 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> > On 13 June 2012 18:15, Bill Stanley <bstanle at wowway.com> wrote:
> ,snip>
> > Out of interest I have downloaded a copy of Xubuntu 12.04 and tried
> > putting it on a test machine just this evening and it defaulted to
> > installing GRUB onto /dev/sdb, the 2nd hard disk and the one with
> > /home on it. Strange!
> > 
> > The root filesystem was on sda5 and it should have put GRUB
> > onto /dev/sda.
> > 
> > So it does seem to me to be perfectly feasible for it to have picked
> > the wrong drive for you - it did for me.
> > 
> > -- 
> interesting.  I have only ever installed it on a single drive machine.
> I must grab one with two drives and see what happens. 
> There would have to be a reason for that as a default.
> 
Regardless of the fact that it can be installed almost anywhere, it
has always defaulted to SD1 (or HD1) for me going back for almost 15
years.

Cybe R. Wizard
-- 
Real programs don't eat cache.