Boot fails if USB stick is not plugged in

[Jakob Unterwurzacher]

I installed from a USB stick, and now the system (Eee PC 1000H) fails to boot if the install USB stick is not plugged in.

If you google that problem, there is lots of threads dealing with that problem, the best analysis I have seen is in
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1661347 (also giving a workaround).

The problem seems to be that the USB stick becomes the first BIOS disk if plugged in.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic-pae 3.2.24
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Sep 16 13:15:42 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=de
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120817.3)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jakob Unterwurzacher (jakobunt)]

Booting from the USB stick now gives the normal Ubuntu boot menu - looks like its installer boot loader was overwritten (instead of writing to the hard disk)

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. If you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
apport-collect 1051549

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]