Package: cdrom Severity: important
A fresh install on the second disk of a two-disk system fails to choose the correct MBR and overwrites MBR of first disk. How to reproduce: SDA with something installed SDB ready for new install If you repartition /dev/sdb and include / on this disk. On the final step of installation the installer asks if you want to install on the MBR. If you choose YES, MBR of /dev/sda is written and not /dev/sdb. When manually repaired, there is another issue with grub installation: menu.lst is configured to have root partition at (hd1,X) and it should be (hd0,X) for proper boot on this disk. So, when installing on a multiple disk system and not on first disk the installer show do one of this three things: - complain about and refuse installing on a disk different than first one - warn that first disk MBR will be overwritten to let user decide - (preferred) install on MBR of disk containig root partition (/) and configure menu.lst so it has (hd0) as GRUB root -- device (hd0) /dev/sdX -- Regards, -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-openvz-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org