Am Freitag, den 04.12.2009, 06:49 +0000 schrieb Arie Skliarouk: > 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!
Well if you really have interest in having this bug fixed, it would help much if you would confirm, if my thoughts are correct or not. GRUB Legacy and GRUB 2 are complete 2 different things from code point of view. > 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. grub-installer > 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... What does g-d mean? I asked you as a bug submitter. I agree that it's not that friendly "fixing" this by telling this to everyone who runs into this problem and not doing anything else. > If nothing can be done - fine too - close the bug please. > The things which can be hopefully done are (again, if my assumption about the problem here is correct): - Fix grub-install/grub-setup to refuse to install GRUB to the MBR of a different disk if blocklists have to be used. - Make first partition in partman always start at a a later sector I think there are plans in parted to make embeding area bigger. - Make grub-installer install to the disk where /boot/grub is on, instead of by default assuming (hd0) is the right disk. In future hopefully debian-installer defaults to create GPT partition tables, then it always creates a bios_grub partition and then blocklists aren't a problem. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer -- 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 ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
