Thank you

Sayth

On Saturday, December 1, 2012, Erick Brunzell wrote:

> I changed that to verification-done based on testing Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
> "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20121130) which I grabbed from the QA
> tracker. If other flavors or architectures require testing please change
> that back to verification-needed with a list of flavors and/or
> architectures that require testing.
>
> That image does now default to selecting /dev/sda which is certainly
> more appropriate and less likely to place grub on an external device.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/987418
>
> Title:
>   manual partitioner: /dev/sdb (installation media) selected by default
>   as device for boot loader installation
>
> Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
>   Fix Released
> Status in “ubiquity” source package in Precise:
>   Fix Committed
> Status in “ubiquity” source package in Quantal:
>   Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
>   [Impact] The selected boot device in ubiquity's manual partitioner is
> sometimes wrong.
>   [Test Case] See comment #11 for a VM setup that reproduces this bug.
>   [Regression Potential] This is hairy code that has failed a number of
> times in the past, so it's worth checking that a few other setups still
> behave reasonably.  It probably still won't be right in all cases (see e.g.
> bug 1066173 which I think precise may suffer from); this specifically
> addresses the case when installing from removable USB media onto a fixed
> disk, and ensuring that the boot loader defaults to the fixed disk.
>
>   == If you are affected by this bug ==
>
>   You can use Quantal beta or later images.
>   You can use Precise post 12.04.1 daily images.
>
>   Both are available from cdimages.ubuntu.com
>
>   =====================================
>
>   Precise Desktop 20120423
>
>   During a side by side installation with an existing Ubuntu Precise on
> the system, with the manual partitioner from a usb stick, the selected
> device for boot loader installation was set to /dev/sdb by default
> (installation media)
>   If the user doesn't pay attention to the selected value, the end of the
> installation will fail.
>
>   When grub fails to install on /dev/sdb, it shows a dialog to select
>   another device. I choose /dev/sda, it installs without a failure but
>   I'm dropped to a grub prompt on reboot.
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
>   Package: ubiquity 2.10.16
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
>   Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
>   ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
>   Architecture: amd64
>   CasperVersion: 1.315
>   Date: Mon Apr 23 19:01:48 2012
>   InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper
> initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
>   LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64+mac
> (20120423)
>   ProcEnviron:
>    LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8
>    TERM=unknown
>    PATH=(custom, no user)
>    LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
>    SHELL=/bin/bash
>   SourcePackage: grub-installer
>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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