Here are a few from the last week that I've personally been involved
with.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1494021
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1491780
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1492209
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1490763
A search of ubuntuforums.org with the following search string: Boot
sector info: Grub 2 is installed in the boot sector (quotes included)
returned 154 results.
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I know I'd mentioned previously how updates that triggered
reconfiguration of grub 2 in Squeeze follows the safer and saner
behavior of displaying only drives rather than drives and partitions,
but I recently did a reinstall of Karmic and it does likewise. So this
only effects Lucid, and having
Unfortunately, there's a thread at
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1469755 entitled How many
users have dual boot unavailable after upgrading to Lucid? and marked
Solved...
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unfortunately the situation is even worse than portrayed here so far ,
the order of the drives as displayed by the installer is not the same as
the BIOS order or the order as presented in Gparted (which I use for all
formating and partitioning ) or even consistent from one release to the
next . I
As you can see from the comments on this bug this is something of a
pain.
I am guessing but i really think about a third of the problems with
booting MS installs that show up on the forums is due to the
installation of grub on the MS boot sector.
While I do not have that problem as I will not
Just to add to Erick's comment, I am still seeing users being hit by
this problem on a daily basis. Although this report says 9 people
affected I can assure you it's much higher. Unfortunately most of these
people are new users attracted to Ubuntu and it's not very good
advertising.
So, isn't it
I got caught by this too, dual hard drives one XP one Ubuntu, followed the
recommendadtion and lost XP
A week of searching and then help...
Hopefully this is a simple fix
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I'm also affected by this. It messed up my windows boot sector because
it suggested i install to all if I am unsure.
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This is a perfect example of the problem:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1484965
BTW I've linked less than 10% of these examples that I've personally
helped to fix.
Please, please help us.
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Apologies in advance if I overstepped my bounds here, but I subscribed
Colin Watson in hopes that he can shed some insight on this.
I promise I won't make such behavior a common practice but I feel this
is giving Ubuntu a real black eye so to speak, and I trust Colin's
judgment based on previous
In post #4 I'd mentioned this being a duplicate, here's another:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/552056
That one's much older, prior to my being aware of the issue. Sadly I
overlooked the issue earlier :^(
After seeing the earliest reports of this I even tried a
I was just fiddling with Debian Squeeze trying to figure out an
unrelated issue but it required my changing from legacy grub to grub2,
and IMO their approach at this is much safer and saner. I posted a
screenshot in this thread at the forums (post #16):
This bug makes my dual-boot not work anymore. I've been trying all the
recommended fixes, but still have no luck. If anyone has any other
suggestions, please look over my thread and let me know. Thank you!
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1480451
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Still getting these:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9289108#post9289108
To quote the OP there:
During the upgrade it complained about grub not working. It said if i
didnt know what drive to mount i had to select all of them, which i
did.
These are constant. I really can't imagine a
this installer is a pure nightmare: in douth never trust it
some neurons are hardly needed and this installer with its silly
comments breaking everything around, might be redesigned.
The grub installer need to remove/purge the previous grub release if it
exist, then select the ubuntu partition
I was affected on my most recent upgrade as well.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9270190#post9270190
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I've been helping plenty of people over on the forums who
install/upgrade to Lucid and are faced with a nonfunctional computer on
the next boot because they misunderstood something in the grub install
or upgrade process. It's not always this particular bug, but all user
interface issues in grub
I have to agree with Erick that the suggestion if in doubt select all
is an incorrect direction to give and is causing various degrees of
problems for many. Especially those with Windows and are installing grub
to many partitions rather than just to the MBR of their first boot hard
drive. I was
Just a couple of examples:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9257870#post9257870
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9261910#post9261910
That was just in the past 12 hours or so and there were more :^(
Recently received this PM:
Well my challenge is within swedish forums
I suspect this is actually a duplicate of this bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/571893
I would however prefer the devs decide.
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I agree that bug #571893 is a duplicate of this one here. We do
experience the same trouble here with grub in wrong places when
upgrading.
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To add a suggestion that can be included very quickly and easily and may
well be sufficient to unexperienced user:
#5: Change the help text from the tickbox when asked where to install
grub:
It should recommend unexperienced users to keep the default setting
rather than mislead users to install
@ Takkat, from what I've seen the default is that nothing is ticked
and in my experience most novices simply don't know what the various
alpha-numerical symbols mean in a drive/partition designation.
Surprisingly there is still confusion over the h or s at the
beginning and the need for UUID's
Noob sez:
It's torture reading this thread! The agony of hindsight.
From an existing two-disk, two-OS dual-boot setup - and as a newcomer to
Ubuntu - I followed the kindly (over-kindly?) advice - if in doubt
select all - not because I was unaware of what the partition names
mean, but because I
Peter, for what it's worth my Ubuntu forum name is kansasnoob. I in no
way meant the noob shoes comment to seem derogatory. I had not looked
at Linux since Lindows until just over two years ago so I am a noob.
But since I'm retired this has become my main hobby and I do sometimes
forget that
Kansasnoob (capitalised as a mark of respect)
I wasn't taking umbrage, just hooking in - and following your posts with
interest.
Yes, the week of head-banging has included taking your advice, but at
testdisk Screen 3, I got a non-standard response, which I have posted
at:
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