Right after I downloaded and started installing the Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS on a mixed sata/ide drive environment I experienced similar issues when placing the MBR onto the IDE drive that I had partinoned and hadson partition 1 XP Pro and on Partions 2 Ubuntu and on partition 3 linux swap.... the other sata drives just contain data and I thought not much of this untiol I repeatedly experienced error 21 no matter where I placed the ubuntu mbr...
Work around is to unplug the sata drives do the install and then when all is fine plug them back up and all is well.... Solution? well just do what I said... -- Installer doesn't recognise SATA disks as primary. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/32357 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs