Yes I am aware what telling it not to install does. What I am saying is that it did not install on the MBR but did screw up the grub that was installed on the MBR. This caused me to not be able to boot to anything.
When I am in a hurry I generally install this way. I have set partitions and use a custom menu with symbolic entries. This means that I can use the entry for the partition and boot any Debian based OS that happens to be on it at the momment. I can then worry about setting grub up as I want later. I just chrooted to the OS I want for grub/root and installed it on the MBR. While not perhaps connected to this problem, when I did get back to the bugger grub was not properly installed. The only file in /boot/grub was grub.cfg. Reinstalling got me one more. apt-get purge grub-pc grub- common and then installing same gave me the same deal. I transplanted a working /boot/grub to that install. Then I could update-grub without a page of errors. I have several installs of 10.10 for testing different things and to have "through away" installs to test update/upgrades on. Do not and have not had this problem with grub on any others but have not installed any more from the A3 series of images. -- When selecting to not install bootloader on MBR I end up with no boot loader https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/613685 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
