Public bug reported:
I had older versions of Ubuntu on 3 partitions on my 1Tbyle hard drive. These
are no longer supported, so I downloaded Ubuntu 14.04.1 and used Brasero to
burn it to a DVD. I began by installing this to each partition in turn.
.
Trouble is, Grub2 just booted to the one on sda1. It geve me no choices and no
delay. I tried updating Grub2, Grub Optimizer, and boot-repair, and I did
manade to get a partial menu come up, but still only the install on sda1 was
listed. The installs on partitions sda5 and sda6 are missing.
I've run out of ideas. Can anyone help?,
This is a wierd problem and every effort to circumvent it via grub and
boot tools as requested by others were of no help. But in following all
the textics requested online, I began to ess some commonalities which
pointed out where I eventually got around this problem. It involved the
use of Fdisk (to delete a locked on sda1), GParted (to recreate all the
partitions on the 1Tbyte hard drive and formattion them as Ext4, Then
designating Something Else under the installer and picking a partition
for the root, then deleting it and recreating it via the installer (to
stablize the boundaries) and checking Format (again as Ext4) and
proceeding with the install. My boot is /dev/sda , not /dev/sda1.
One od the factors I missed initially with GParted was not setting the
partitions on cylinder boundaries and making sure /dev/sd1 begins at 1,
meaninf one megabyte of /dev/sda is left for the install of a boot
process by grub. Some of the other indications that were boted were:
Grub menus were not updated as the initial partition were not aligned properly,
so grub could not identify OSes.
Trying to revert back to 12.04, I got install errors which were not reportrf by
the 14.04 installer..
You have to do the installs in reverse order of the sequence order that you
want them to appear in the grub menu.
I believe many of the bug reports about not being able to install Ubuntu
14.04 in a dual OS setup with Windows can be traced to the combined
prartition and formatting oriblems described here.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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