Install Edgy - drive designation for Grub install

[Adrian R Goalby]

During install of Edgy the user is asked where Grub should be installed, default "(hd0)", this uses Grub's own weird disk/partition numbering system. The interface to the user should display and accept the same disk/partition designations as the rest of the install process (eg. the earlier partitioning phase). It is totally unreasonable to expect everybody who installs Ubuntu to be a Grub expert.

My disks are:-
hda - data
hdc - blank for new Ubuntu
hde & hdg - raid mirrored pair with windows 98

During install of Edgy the system said it would install Grub to "(hd0)", I suspected this was wrong as I wanted Grub on the ubuntu disk (ie. hdc). So I changed it to "(hd2)", this caused Grub to be installed on hde (which did not work, and also corrupted my raid mirror). Further investigation showed that Grub has its own weird disk/partition numbering system, I now know that I should have used "(hd1)". But I think my input of "(hd2)" was reasonable, eg. the BIOS boot control represents hda->hdd as HDD0->HDD3.

[Ben T (bentucci523)]

Ubiquity is the ubuntu installer.

[jaceq (jacek-wit)]

Adrian R Goalby wrote:
> Further investigation showed that Grub has its own weird disk/partition
> numbering system, I now know that I should have used "(hd1)".

My disks are:
hda - two partitions with Win XP (plus logical disks on 2nd ext. partition)
hdc - blank new for edgy kubuntu.

So, I expected I should have the GRUB at the (hda), to choose from Win and Kubuntu boot - I should have used (hd0)? But writing the GRUB caused Ubiquity crash.

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/76335

thanx, j.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

You're right that this is an awkward UI. This is basically part of the cluster of problems that I'm tracking as bug 90575, so I'll mark it as a duplicate of that. Somebody else there suggested using a drop-down for the possible devices.

[Dan Meany (dan-meany)]

Even after I did it right there were problems so I went to Fedora, and also had problems. Dont think the distros are ready for *booting* from USB sticks yet....

Colin Watson <email address hidden> wrote: *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 90575 ***

You're right that this is an awkward UI. This is basically part of the
cluster of problems that I'm tracking as bug 90575, so I'll mark it as a
duplicate of that. Somebody else there suggested using a drop-down for
the possible devices.

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 90575
   MASTER: need further sanity checking on grub device names

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Install Edgy - drive designation for Grub install
https://launchpad.net/bugs/76192