Ubuntu
grub-installer package

  1. Bug #45989
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 45989

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Dup (ddup1) wrote :

Hi,

I have similar behaviour on an IBM Netfinity server. We have 2 harddisk link on an Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter and 1 IDE drive.
We choose to install Ubuntu on the IDE drive and Ubuntu report hard disk schema as this :

SCSI1 : /dev/sda
SCSI2 : /dev/sdb
IDE1 : /dev/sdc

Install works fine when choosing to install grub, no error message is displaying but after reboot, grub failed to launch.
Cause is that grub use device.map to know where to install grub and device.map look like this :

(hd0) (/dev/sdc)
(hd1) (/dev/sda)
(hd2) (/dev/sdb)

So Ubuntu say to grub to install itself on hd2 disk (as ubuntu know ide drive is on third disk) and fails. After booting in rescue mode i resolve because i know how grub works.