it installed in EFI mode - the fat32 partition would be for the efi version of the grub bootloader
On 7 November 2014 21:17, Barry Drake <ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com> wrote: > Hi there .... Any thoughts on this behaviour? My main desktop machine > has two hard drives. I always run current stable on one and testing on the > other, using testing as a matter of course but having stable available for > when testing breaks. > > I installed Vivid onto the drive where Trusty had been. I used the > defaults and installed to the entire drive. For some reason, grub had been > installed to the other drive, and the partitioning on the Vivid > installation was bizarre - /dev/sdb1 was a small (500 MB) Fat 32 partition, > with /dev/sdb2 as the main ext4 partition. The swap partition was as > expected. > > I could not install grub to this drive. My workaround was to disconnect > the other drive and re-install. That gave me the expected partitioning. > I'm really curious as to what was going on. Any thoughts? > > Regards, Barry. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- Daniel Llewellyn
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