I can confirm this with today's daily live netbook ISO. FWIW, starting with Maverick my internal disk changes from /dev/sda to /dev/sde whenever I plug in my USB card reader (empty or not).
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- Grub2 installed on USB key insteed hard drive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/629519 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs