Comment 18 for bug 185878
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| OS/2-User (fzf7a2c02) wrote Re: GRUB installation fails if installing to non-ext3 partition | #18 |
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Well, all I can say is, that during all those years I experienced Ubuntu to fail to finish its installation, whenever I tried to get it on my HDD the way I needed it to be, SuSE didn't have that problem, using the very same conditions.
Out of desperation I now switched to Linux Mint, which is based on Ubuntu, but installs just fine, quite different to the original, it's based on. And as far as I know, SuSE as well as Mint use GRUB as well.
So for all I can tell, to me it therefore doesn't seem to be a problem of grub-install, but the installer itself, but I'm everything but an expert, so I may be completely wrong.
But I know for sure, that Ubuntu is severely broken since a very long time, when one tries to use any of those legitimate options the installer offers, other than MBR and ext[n].
If Ubuntu considers the only way it is supposed to be installed, to be Grub in the MBR and the only valid FS to be ext[n], then be honest and say so clearly from the get go and REMOVE all other options from the installer.
Else it is like Henry Ford back then, offering his car in every colour one desires, as long as it is black.