Yes it was with Vanilla Ubuntu Karmic using Grub 2.
So the bug is not only Mythbuntu.
Man, that ruined half of my Sunday!
I had a company administred Notebook, for which i have admin rights, but the M$
recovery console asked for the *overall* administrator pasword... just to fix
that dam***d MB
Laszlo_Lebrun: was that with the released version of Karmic / Grub2?
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"The grub part of the bug is that it writes the mbr onto one drive with the
first part of the loader which then expects to load the
rest from another drive. If the former is the internal disk and the latter is
an external (and therefore not necessarily available)
disk, this is a recipe for disast
Something like this happened when I attempted an Alpha 4 install on a
4th hd, sdb which has an NTFS data partition sdb1, on a second primary
partition sdb2. Two other drives (one sdc, one hda) have non-
functioning XP partitions. I instructed the installer to write grub to
the MBR of sdb. When i
This happened to me too. There are two problems:
1) it defaults to installing grub on hd0 even if you are installing ubuntu to a
different drive.
2) it doesn't say anything about it in the summary list, so you don't know you
need to click the advanced button to change it.
These are, properly s
Reopening - there was AFAICS no justification for closing this, and I'm
not ready for it to be closed yet. I have some plans for this class of
bugs.
(Triaging bugs is often an excellent contribution, but please be ultra-
careful when *closing* bugs.)
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
Status: I
Hello Steven Harms:
We are uncertain why this bug was closed on the grub2 project without
comment. Was it because grub2 doesn't actually behave the way the
reporter describes, or because that is the behavior that is intended (in
which case, wouldn't WONTFIX be more accurate)?
Thank you!
** Chan
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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There is indeed an option in the Advanced menu available from the
summary screen which allows you to specify the drive for the boot
loader. Pointing this to the USB stick resolves the install problem
the laptop hard drive was left alone and bootable, and the USB stick now
boots with mythbuntu
The grub menu appeared when the USB drive was connected to the laptop.
Just in case someone else runs into this I was able to fix my the
main boot record on my laptop (following suggestions on the IRC) as
follows:
Insert the USB stick I made to get the grub menu,
boot Windows
Followed this pr
Log files from /var/log/installer on USB drive
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http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30429598/initial-status
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** Also affects: grub2 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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