GRUB installs to the wrong disk when updating 9.10 to 10.04 LTS

[Xoán Cardelle]

I have a old 80GB ATA IDE disk and a SATA II 500GB disk in my computer. On the ATA i have installed Windows XP and Windows Server, and on the SATA i have Ubuntu and a NTFS partision.

The SATA disk is pluged in to the first SATA port. And the ATA disk is set to Slave.

Under 9.10 Gparted reports the the SATA disk as sda, and the ATA as sdb.

When i upgraded to 10.04 it did not aske me where to install GRUB, if it had i would have picked the SATA, but in 10.04 Gparted reported the ATA disk as sda, and the SATA as sdb. So GRUB was installed to the wrong disk and instead Windows starts up.

I didn't have any issues on a system with a single disk, but i still think this should be reported, as many of us have dual boot.

[Daniel Faulkner (daniel-faulkner)]

If you can also give an English translation of your bug report it will allow a quicker response. Using an online translation service it looks like the issue you are reporting is that you are installing Ubuntu on to SATA drive in a computer with 2 hard drives with windows already installed on an ATA drive and the installer is trying to install grub to the wrong hard drive.

[Daniel Faulkner (daniel-faulkner)]

Yelp is the software powering ubuntu's help system. I believe you either want grub or ubiquity.

[Evan (ev)]

Can you please describe your bug in English, or can someone provide an English translation? Google translate is being entirely unhelpful.

[AJenbo (ajenbo)]

Marked this as invalid for Ubiquity as this was an upgrade issue and not an isntall issue.

Added Gparted as this bug mentions grub changing the names of the drives, although that is probably to to with Linux.

Added GRUB as this seams to be the right package for this issue.