Did a fresh maverick install and then upgrade to Natty on a non-Windows partition. No prompt on where to install grub, and it updated wubildr correctly. After booting into Natty I could run "grub-install" and it correctly updated wubildr on the windows partition without any prompts and did not allow install to the drive MBR.
The following showed my tests : bcbc@ubuntu:~$ mount | grep '/host' /dev/sda3 on /host type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096) bcbc@ubuntu:~$ sudo grub-install /dev/sda2 Installation finished. No error reported. bcbc@ubuntu:~$ mount | grep /dev/sda2 bcbc@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt bcbc@ubuntu:~$ ls -l /mnt/wubildr -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 148091 2011-04-06 22:43 /mnt/wubildr bcbc@ubuntu:~$ date Wed Apr 6 22:43:33 PDT 2011 bcbc@ubuntu:~$ sudo grub-install /dev/sda Installation finished. No error reported. bcbc@ubuntu:~$ ls -l /mnt/wubildr -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 148092 2011-04-06 22:44 /mnt/wubildr bcbc@ubuntu:~$ sudo debconf-show grub-pc [sudo] password for bcbc: grub-pc/kopt_extracted: false grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline: grub2/device_map_regenerated: * grub-pc/install_devices: /dev/loop0 grub-pc/postrm_purge_boot_grub: false grub-pc/install_devices_failed_upgrade: true grub-pc/disk_description: * grub2/linux_cmdline: grub-pc/install_devices_empty: false grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default: quiet grub-pc/partition_description: grub-pc/install_devices_failed: false grub-pc/install_devices_disks_changed: * grub2/linux_cmdline_default: quiet splash grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true grub-pc/hidden_timeout: true grub-pc/mixed_legacy_and_grub2: true grub-pc/timeout: 10 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/610898 Title: grub-pc upgrade renders computer unbootable when Wubi is installed to partition other than Windows -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
