Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: usb-creator
Hi,
I am creating USB installer of ubuntu-10.04-server-amd64.iso to install
onto HP DL360 G6.
When the installer reaches the point where it installs grub, it installs
it into the mbr of sda (which is the USB drive you are installing from
typically!) It should really be installing into /dev/cciss/c0d0. There
doesn't seem to be an option to pick the drive you want to write the
boot sector to.
This causes two problems - it renders the usb installer unusable since
its bootloader has been wiped, and the server can't boot without the USB
drive present, since it doesn't have a bootloader installed locally.
A workaround is to just run grub-install /dev/cciss/c0d0 once the server
comes up, but you will have to rebuilt the boot-sector on the USB drive
to use it again.
I used usb-creator-gtk on a vanilla install of 10.04-desktop-amd64, and
used the ubuntu-10.04-server-amd64.iso image as the image to install to
the USB drive.
** Affects: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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installer installs grub into wrong mbr (usb device sda)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/589483
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