install to external hardrive modifies internal grub
Bug #749519 reported by
feliciaw
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #704763: boot loader not installed to target disk.
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| ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity
....this occurred on an install on another laptop
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: ubiquity (not installed)
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 3 13:06:08 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
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| feliciaw (felicia-capestreasures) wrote | #1 |
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| feliciaw (felicia-capestreasures) wrote | #2 |
| tags: | added: ubiquity-2.4.8 |
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We installed using the natty installer to an external harddrive via usb. The internal harddrive was /dev/sda, the installer flash drive was /dev/hdb and the target install drive via usb was /dev/sdc
The installer asked us which drive to install grub to and we selected /dev/sdc (the default was sda which is wrong too) when the installer had finished it had installed to sda anyway. sdc contains no grub and we have installed grub manually and repaired the internal hard drive (which no longer boots thanks to it looking for a drive which isn't plugged in)
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