Comment 28 for bug 46520
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| Doug Wright (douglaswrg) wrote Re: Grub installs to wrong drive's MBR in default install. No way to change in standard installer. | #28 |
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I have confirmed that the same behaviour is seen in Intrepid (20081009 / AMD64 Server). My workstation has the following hardware -- which differs in chipset than the original with the disks listed in physical order:
MB: Abit KV8Pro
PATA1: 1x 80GB and 1x 120GB disks
PATA2: 1x DVD drive
SATA: 2x 120GB disks
I have attached the output of some commands (uname, lspci, dmesg, fdisk) from Intrepid, as well as from Gentoo and GParted Live for comparison. It seems that in Ubuntu, Grub is seeing the correct order for the disks, but the order the the kernel provides to it during the install is incorrect. This probably only affects systems that have integrated PATA and SATA controllers provided by a single chip with both types being used.
My guess is that Ubuntu is the only one (of theses three atleast) that is solely relying on the new 'libata' module. The others still have /proc/ide populated.
Let me know if there is any thing else I can provide for you.