On 08/04/08 04:39, Nigel Henry wrote: > I'm just installing another instance of Gutsy Gibbon on one of my drives, and > as you say the "Advanced" button is there on the confirmation page you > mention above, but can easily be missed, as I did on my first install of > Gutsy Gibbon, and ended up with Gutsy Gibbons Grub overwriting my FC2 Grub > that was in the MBR, with chainloaders to other distros on the drive. > > Yes. Gutsy Gibbons Grub had all the kernels listed for FC2, Debian Etch, and > Debian Lenny, but as the the kernels for Debian Etch, and Lenny are the same, > it would be a bit hit and miss as to which Debian version I would be booting. > > Personally I think it would be better to have a separate page for the > bootloader, as on other distros, and where you have choices presented to you > as to where you want to install the bootloader. In most cases the default of > installing to the MBR would be ok if you were a first time user of the > distro, but for those of us that have dual/triple installs on the drive, > options as to where you want to install the bootloader, I'm sure would be > appreciated. >
Words fail me. Personally I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the developers who wrote software that was able to detect kernels across at least 4 operating systems, (Etch, Lenny, FC2 and two instances of Gutsy). As for the suggestion; adding 30 seconds of effort to 99.9% of installations for the "benefit" of 0.1% of the users seems a step backward, both for Ubuntu and society as a whole. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06" - E115°50'39" (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)() ..ASCII for Onno.. |>>? ..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 8888 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss