grub2 makes killing windows partition easy

[Jürgen]

Binary package hint: grub2

I have an old Dell Inspiron

Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sda1 1 12 96358+ 6 FAT16
/dev/sda2 * 13 4186 33527655 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 6904 7295 3148740 db CP/M / CTOS / …
/dev/sda4 4187 6903 21824302+ 5 Erweiterte
/dev/sda5 * 4187 6788 20900533+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 6789 6903 923706 82 Linux Swap / Solaris

Beeing noisy J have upgraded from Karmic to Lynx Beta
Everything went well until grub2 asked me where to put grub. I think I should have checked sda but I also checked sda2 and sda5 and sda.

When I hit <ok> I could see some messages on the screen saying basically "what you are doing is stupid" but the program continued anyway leaving me with a perfect lynx but also with a nowaytobootevenwithrecoverydisk-windows.

What I suggest is that the option is greyed out on windows partitions. For specialists like me :-) there could be an expert menu (marked with a skull) .

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. I'm dealing with this issue as bug 576724.