Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ubiquity
I installed the 9.04 beta AMD64 on my Thinkpad x61t.
Using "advanced" on one of the screens (I forget which one), I specified
that grub's boot record should be installed on /dev/sda9 (the only
choice besides /dev/sda) (I admit that I don't remember if the
terminology was actually (hd0) vs (hd0,8)).
I then tried to boot the machine. It should have booted Ubuntu 8.10
since the master boot record was still set to booting /dev/sda4.
Instead, it hung.
To fix this, I booted the 9.04 beta live CD, used fdisk to move the boot
flag to /dev/sda3. I then booted the grub on that partition (8.04) and
got it to use the 8.10 grub menu and thus booted 8.10. I then fixed the
boot record using 8.10's grub-install.
Summary: the installer somehow broke the bootloader on a partition it
should not have touched.
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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boot record written to wrong partition
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/360898
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