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grub-installer package

  1. Bug #32357
  2. Comment #28

Comment 28 for bug 32357

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Herbert Thielen (thielen) wrote : GRUB installation on wrong hard disk with Kubuntu Hardy Alpha 3 Alternate

I've seen a similar problem as reported earlier. My system has 4 IDE PATA ports:
- two internal PATA ports on an nVidia nForce2, used by a hard disk (hda) and a DVD drive
- two PATA ports on a Promise Technology PCI card, used by two additionla hard disks (sda, sdb)

During installation with Hardy Alpha 3 Kubuntu Alternate, the disks were named:
- sda, sdb for the two disks connected to the PCI card
- sdc for the disk connected to the chipset IDE port

Grub installed the boot record to sda, but the BIOS chose to start the (old) boot loader from hda (chipset PATA port, was called 'sdc' during installation).

I had to manually install Grub on the right disk again to be able to boot Hardy.

Additional informations can be provided on request.

Best regards,
Herbert.