[Bug 572086] Re: upgrade karmic to lucid, grub was installed on wrong hd

2013-05-21 Thread Phillip Susi
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/572086 Title: upgrade karmic to lucid, grub was installed on wrong hd To manage noti

[Bug 572086] Re: upgrade karmic to lucid, grub was installed on wrong hd

2013-05-21 Thread Mathieu31
Three years after the original post, using now xubuntu 13.04 Raring and a SATA only computer, I do not experience the issue anymore. On my previous computer, I had a motherboard PATA interface, with the boot disk, and a PCI to SATA card, with a second disk. For this computer, sda and sdb tend to

[Bug 572086] Re: upgrade karmic to lucid, grub was installed on wrong hd

2013-05-20 Thread Phillip Susi
Has this continued to happen? Please post the output of debconf-show grub-pc ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/572086 Titl

[Bug 572086] Re: upgrade karmic to lucid, grub was installed on wrong hd

2010-05-11 Thread Mathieu31
I forgot to mention that this issue is specific to lucid. Karmic was well behaved. -- upgrade karmic to lucid, grub was installed on wrong hd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/572086 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubun

[Bug 572086] Re: upgrade karmic to lucid, grub was installed on wrong hd

2010-05-11 Thread Mathieu31
I had the same issue, where the installer choose the wrong disk to write grub2's MBR to. I believe this is linked to Bug #569645: the system assign names to disk (sda, sdb, etc) in a random order (to save boot time, as I understand). So sda is not always the boot disk (as defined in the BIOS). H

[Bug 572086] Re: upgrade karmic to lucid, grub was installed on wrong hd

2010-05-10 Thread Steve Langasek
Please run 'apport-collect 572086'. Even if the upgrade did install grub to the wrong disk, I don't see how that would have removed grub from the disk where it had been installed before. ** Package changed: grub (Ubuntu) => grub2 (Ubuntu) -- upgrade karmic to lucid, grub was installed on wrong

[Bug 572086] Re: upgrade karmic to lucid, grub was installed on wrong hd

2010-05-09 Thread hmit
I had a windows XP and an ubuntu 9.10 on sda and another ubuntu 9.10 and a xubuntu installation on sdb. The ubuntu on sdb was my working installation, the others were experimental. So I chose to upgrade the working installation automatically to 10.4. After the upgrading the windows could not boo