Please file a bug about it. 2009/10/19 Alan Searchwell <[email protected]>: > > > I always use the advanced options in the installer to install grub to the > root partition of the distro I'm installing. Since I'm dual booting with > windows, I then use grub4dos to boot into linux. This gives me a quick and > easy method to restore the ability to boot linux after a Windows re-install > since all that is required to set up grub4dos is to copy a file (grldr) to > the Windows boot partition and edit Windows startup menus to launch that file. > > Today I did an installation that had a weird partition table. The entries > were: > > /dev/sda1 * 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda2 1276 7476 49809532+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/sda5 1276 6024 38146311 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda6 6025 7269 10000431 83 Linux > /dev/sda7 7270 7476 1662696 82 Linux swap / Solaris > > Notice, no sda3 or sda4. When I chose the advanced options during install, I > was given the option of installing grub to sda, sda1 (Microsoft Windows XP > Professional), sda5 or sda6. Since I was expecting the Linux partition to be > sda4, I got confused and thought that sda6 must be the swap partition (dumb > me) so I installed grub to sda5. This has made my NTFS partition inaccessible > with no easy way to correct this mistake. > > The installer is smart enough to know that grub can't be installed to swap > space so, the swap partition is not offered as an option for installing grub. > From today's experience NTFS partitions are not suitable for installing grub > so they should not be offered as options either. IMHO Ubuntu's installer > does a fine job of saving users from themselves and this little extra check > would take that protection one step further. > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Keep your friends updated—even when you’re not signed in. > http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_5:092010 > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss >
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