On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Joshua D Doll <joshua.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Joshua D Doll <joshua.d...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>>> I think the Handbook and other Official gentoo docs are well and >>>> written. I >>>> feel they are so well written and informative that a new user could read >>>> and >>>> follow what the doc is trying to convey. >>>> >>>> >>>> --Joshua Doll >>>> >>> >>> I agree. Everything except the grub part. It's well written but it >>> requires more knowledge about the actual hardware than the rest of it, >>> especially if you do it wrong and have to recover. >>> >> >> I helped my brother install Ubuntu and the lack of control over grub >> was frustrating. It just did what it wanted to do without asking >> (which was install grub onto the wrong drive with the wrong drive >> numbers, because the BIOS boot order did not match Ubuntu's detected >> drive order). If that drive had been part of a RAID or had some >> important metadata in the boot sector, it could have been a disaster. >> >> No distro is perfect. Gentoo is perfect for me, though :) >> >> >> > > I think you mean to say no boot loader is perfect. ;-) > > --Joshua Doll > >
The ubuntu installer did not tell me which drive it was installing the boot loader onto, nor did it give me a choice -- it chose the one it thought was appropriate (and it was wrong). If you google for ubuntu grub sata ide you can see it happens to nearly everyone who has a mixture of IDE and SATA drives where they boot from IDE but linux gives sda to sata and sdc to IDE or whatever.
