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ubiquity package

External hard drive install won't boot

Bug #651112 reported by Michael Terry on 2010-09-29

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #704763: boot loader not installed to target disk. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

I just tried to install UNE 10.10 (Sep 29th live CD) to an external USB hard drive. It was an OEM install. The install finished successfully, then I tried to reboot into the drive. But grub never came up. It just sat at a blinking cursor. Seems like it didn't install grub into the drive?

I'm attaching the contents of /var/log/installer from the drive.

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Michael Terry (mterry) wrote on 2010-09-29:

installer.tar.bz2 Edit (408.4 KiB, application/x-tar)

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Michael Terry (mterry) wrote on 2010-09-29:

Aha... If I don't tell the BIOS to boot from the external drive (i.e. if I boot from my internal hard drive), I can boot the new installation on the external drive.

But only if I have it plugged in. If I don't, I get:

error: no such device: XXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX.
grub rescue>

Not sure which bits of this are intentional and which aren't. Close this bug out if it's all intentional.

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Jeff Lane  (bladernr) wrote on 2010-10-01:

Yeah... sounds like you just put grub in the wrong place.

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Michael Terry (mterry) wrote on 2010-10-01:

Well, ubiquity installed grub for me without asking me any questions about it. So not really my fault. Either the behavior I got is intentional or ubiquity needs to be smarter or ubiquity needs to ask.