VERY DANGEROUS OVERWRITES MBR WITHOUT WARNING !! I installed Karmic Koala Ubunutu 9.10 from the live CD icon on a MACBOOK PRO 13". I choose to install on and 8GB SD card (sdb) and used "manual partion" to set up sda1 as an ext3 mounted as "/". Everything went fine until the very end when ubiguity said "installing GRUB on hd(0,0) (which would be sda the harddrive) wihtout any question.
When i rebooted i could not reboot into OSX. I had to pulls some undocumented OSX rescue tricks to get my OSX back working. This should never have happend grub should have been installed on sdb or i schould have been asked. link to help forum entry: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1306837 -- GRUB is written to primary hard drive without permission https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/429979 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
