On Sat, October 13, 2012 10:15 am, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > We recently changed the logic as to which drive is preffered for the > installation. > There are two things at play here: what devices BIOS/(U)EFI are looking > for boot loaders and in what order. > I do not think it's ever wise by default to install bootloader into MBR or > a different device. > > As a workaround you can enter advanced paritioner, select boot loader > device, then go back & finish the install. That should work.
I understand the work around (and normally use manual for my own use) but am more worried about the first time user who is not trusting of shrinking their windows partition and wants this separate to learn on/try out. It is not clear from the use whole disk text that ubiquity will do anything to the internal drive. Even a "do not use this option for an external drive" warning would be better than what is there now. I have had to help a newbys with unbootable systems and it seems maybe this is one of the reasons why. Once "use whole disk" is chosen, the option to choose which disk is given. This makes this method a comfortable idea for someone with this setup. It is possible to detect if a drive is external, maybe separate options should be given for that case. Maybe stronger language like "this will modify your main (C: or /dev/sda) drive even if you choose to install on another drive" before this option is chosen would help. Ubuntu is an out of the box distro and if it is easy for an inexperienced user to make their machine unbootable, something needs to change. -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net -- 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
