On Sat, October 13, 2012 8:11 am, Jean-Baptiste Lallement wrote: > I did the following test: > 1. Plugged an external drive on a system with an existing installation of > Ubuntu > 2. In partman I selected 'Entire drive' > 3. On the confirmation page, I selected the external drive (sdc) and > proceeded with installation > 4. Proceeded with installation and rebooted > => Boot ok with external drive plugged > 5. Unplug external drive and boot > => Dropped to grub rescue mode
The problem is with removable drives. May of todays systems will boot from the external drive by default because they have no floppy or cd/dvd drive. So in my case even with the external drive plugged in it failed to reboot because the BIOS was looking for a bootable external drive. The only way I could reboot was to tell the bios to select the internal drive even though the external drive was plugged in, but that was only good for one boot. I had to reset the bios at every boot. So in the case of a USB drive Grub has to go on the external drive to boot correctly at all with a netbook for example. (both of the ones I have here Acer and HP show the same thing) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1066173 Title: whole disk install puts grub in wrong place To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1066173/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
