As I wrote earlier, I have solved the problem for me and am interested in it being resolved for sake of laymen that are going to install ubuntu onto theirs old harddisk, lose ability to boot windows and then hate linux (as a generalization) for the rest of their life.
I don't care how the problem is solved, by patching grub-pc, or modifying debian-installer. What matters, is for the user to be able install ubuntu on their *old* harddisk, with small track size and not notice that! If you don't want to make debian-installer to use grub1 in these cases, fine then, make grub-pc to automatically use blocklists or use whatever workaround. BTW, it is not user-friendly to ask users to change BIOS, or g-d forbid, resize the the first partition so it starts after sector 63... If nothing can be done - fine too - close the bug please. -- grub-pc can not install on old drives, use grub instead https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/491740 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
