Comment 44 for bug 576724

To me the easiest short term fix would be to revert to the Karmic "behavior" which displayed only the drive designations. Since this effects only updates/upgrades that shouldn't be too difficult since those updates must (I assume) come from a Canonical server. One exception might be upgrading using an Alternate CD but I've never used that method to upgrade so I can't be sure.

That does not mean reverting to the Karmic "package" but only the behavior of displaying only drive designations rather than drive and partition designations. It's seldom wise to install grub 2 to a partition anyway and, since that option is rarely wise, it should be difficult (but not impossible) to accomplish.

So there are great suggestions for "long term" redesigning in the long term, given the number of people selecting all designations displayed, this really needs to be addressed in a short term manner to quell the number of update/upgrade failures.

Regardless, nothing we say makes any difference if we can't get a dev to look at this. I feel I've tried everything I can other than buying airfare and dancing naked in the street in front of Canonical headquarters ;^)

I subscribed Colin Watson to the thread and I posted this at Ayatana:

http://<email address hidden>/msg02554.html

I even cc'ed SABDFL :^/

And most recently I posted this at Maverick testing:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1504847

I don't know what else to do and, while I recognize my overuse of exclamation and question marks in a recent post as immature, I'm just frustrated.

Certainly the easiest thing would be for me unsubscribe myself from this bug report and let someone else worry about it but that's not in my nature.

Due to poor visual acuity I've found IRC to be too difficult for me, could someone else try to draw some devs to this through IRC?