On 28.03.2011 23:49, Ken Stump wrote: > If that's the case, then it reinforces my point. It never should have > been released in this "condition". And it doesn't install "where you > tell it". It installs where it wants to which is probably in the > coding of the program to screw with the first disk it comes to. But > then why would it also screw up two other drives at the same time? > Can't it "search" in a "read only" mode for the Linux partition > instead of corrupting everything it finds? Linux doesn't normally > install on an NTFS partition. > > Thanks for the responses, but there has been nothing in the way of > practical information. > I already told you all of it. If you want to install to sda you do: grub-install /dev/sda If you want to install to sdb you do grub-install /dev/sdb And so on. Unless grub-install or grub-setup is called, GRUB won't be installed. How Debian or Ubuntu or any other distro calls the grub-install during update is out of what this mailing list handles. I'm aware that sometimes Debian or Ubuntu launches grub-install with wrong argument but we just do what is told us to do. You wouldn't scream at coreutils if someone launched "rm -rf /" on your system. Same, please, don't scream at GRUB2 because packaging instructed it to install itself to wrong disk. A a side note to change install devices in Debian/Ubuntu it's sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc As for bugreporting on packaging bugs, it's launchpad. > Personally, I'll go back to 8.10 with regular GRUB until a stable, > reliable release. I have a feeling that's going to take some time to > happen because I don't think you even grasp the magnitude of this. > You've essentially created a new Microsoft. And one of those was more > than enough. >
> Ken > > --- On *Mon, 3/28/11, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko > /<[email protected]>/* wrote: > > > From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: GRUB2 Sucks! > To: "Ken Stump" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Monday, March 28, 2011, 2:57 PM > > On 28.03.2011 20:06, Ken Stump wrote: > > No. I'm not "trolling". I'm fed up! And you are incorrect > about it > > being installed in the wrong drive. Had you read the whole email, I > > specifically said that I physically removed the internal hard > drive. > > This was done preciously because GRUB2 does whatever it wants to do, > > not what people want it to do! > > > GRUB2 just installs where it's told to install. Packaging may be > confused by changing disk names and so may instruct GRUB2 to > install to > wrong drive > > It was after I reinstalled the internal hard disk, and had done an > > update to the installed Ubuntu 10.10 and rebooting was required that > > if screwed up my internal hard drive. It also screwed up a > second USB > > drive that is nothing but a music depository. So why is it messing > > with all these other drives? > > > Because Ubuntu was confused about which drive is which and so > update/reinstall had installed to wrong device > > > > -- > Regards > Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko > > > -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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