Absolutely. I will try to dig into that this morning. It shouldn't be that
hard.

Eschew obfuscation
On Nov 12, 2012 8:16 AM, "Chris Knadle" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sunday, November 11, 2012 21:56:06, Jack Chastain wrote:
> > Yay! With Chris's assistance, I have my old Dell running Ubuntu properly
> > now. He walked me through the correct manual partitioning of the
> free-space
> > I partitioned out on my initial drive and all is right with the world -
> or
> > at lest this small corner of it.
> ...
> > We still don't know why the automated installer never presented any but
> the
> > last disk in the chain, but the "Advanced" section did everything we
> needed
> > - so I am just not going to worry about that now.
>
> It is strange as to why this happened, because the disks were being
> recognized; and sure enough if the option was chosen to install Ubuntu onto
> the USB drive, but the default location to install Grub2 was the first hard
> disk.  Whatever is going on here seems like it's a bizarre software glitch
> in
> the install code.
>
> Now the next question is -- where's the right place to report this bug, and
> what package should be the bug be against?  ;-)  [This needs to be
> reported or
> others are going to have the same problem!]  I don't mind helping write the
> bug report, but I'm less familiar with Ubuntu's bug procedures -- so if
> someone can give me an initial pointer as to where this bug should go, that
> would be cool.
>
>   -- Chris
>
> --
> Chris Knadle
> [email protected]
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