I agree, this is horrible to other distro users.... Another thing that completely drives me bonkers is the fact that ubuntu forces you to have to format your / and /boot partitions. Great! Now every other distro on my computer that uses UUID's for these partitions need to have their /etc/fstab files fixed because a format changes the UUID (Which were formatted and clean ext3 filesystems anyway)
Why can't I share a /boot partition between multiple distros and Ubuntu. I use many distros sharing /boot (debian, gentoo, sabayon, and fedora) and rather have the installer put the kernel and all the grub stuff in /boot and NOT touch the mbr or /boot/grub/menu.lst file, but with ubuntu forcing a reformat I cannot, plus either debian or ubuntu will mess up the menu.lst file every image update anyway so I have to chainload and install the grub bootloader to the partiton of ubuntu and not to the mbr.... but wait. the graphical installer can't do this either! I know the alternate install CD can, but this stuff can't be that complicated to fix and would be important to many i'd suppose. -- Install Ubuntu without GRUB. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190203 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
