I had a windows XP and an ubuntu 9.10 on sda and another ubuntu 9.10 and a xubuntu installation on sdb. The ubuntu on sdb was my working installation, the others were experimental. So I chose to upgrade the working installation automatically to 10.4. After the upgrading the windows could not boot. So I concluded that the upgrade had moved the boot process from sda2 to sdb1 (where the working ubuntu, now 10.4, is), thus rewritten the mbr. Anyhow, I used windows to rewrite the mbr, after which I had windows, but no Ubuntu. Then I used a Ubuntu-live to install a new GRUB2, after which everything worked again.
But I agree that any Ubuntu install or upgrade should offer the option to skip changing the boot mechanism. -- upgrade karmic to lucid, grub was installed on wrong hd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/572086 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
