Public bug reported:
I had a working sdhc usbkey that had a dos partition and grub which
could boot into it as well as a bootable linux (split into / and /home)
under jaunty. Simple, easy...
Karmic has been an absolute disaster trying to do any kind of upgrade.
I managed to get it installed, and it insisted on including all the
partitions I really didn't want (and there seems to be no way to fix)
from whatever system I'm doing the install on.
THERE IS NO USEFUL DOCUMENTATION FOR GRUB2. ONLY FILES IT TELLS ME NOT
TO EDIT ACTUAL CONFIG FILES OR HAS OBSCURE UNDOCUMENTED UNCOMMENTED AND
BROKEN SCRIPTS.
It does not detect the DOS partition on the USB key even if it boots
from and has the root on the USB key. I've gone into 30_osprobe and can
only determine that it can't find it though it apparently accesses it
but cannot get it to say why and because there is no manual alternative
I can't fix it.
GRUB2 should NOT have been included in Karmic. The documentation is not
ready or nonexistent (even for someone who regularly hacks kernels) and
the probing is unstable and unreliable, and there are no safety valves
or escape mechanisms when something doesn't work.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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grub2 doesn't find dos partitions on usb
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/471715
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