Comment 7 for bug 414996
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| databubble (phil-linttell) wrote Re: [karmic alpha 4] grub re-writes boot sector on wrong drive on mythbuntu install | #7 |
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There is indeed an option in the Advanced menu available from the summary screen which allows you to specify the drive for the boot loader. Pointing this to the USB stick resolves the install problem.... the laptop hard drive was left alone and bootable, and the USB stick now boots with mythbuntu 9.10.
Strictly speaking I suppose that all is behaving as per design intent, and this isn't a bug.
However, because of the potential impact the default grub installation can be a non-booting system, I'd like to encourage the developers to consider making the install default for the grub boot loader to be the install disk.... and allow the user to choose a different disk in the advanced option.
Also, it might be worth pointing out that the hard drive grub modified wasn't the first boot device.... the CD-ROM, and the USB stick were configured in BIOS as booting prior to the hard drive. So, it's a little hard to understand the logic of writing boot loader to the hard drive by default.