Comment 52 for bug 6367

Well, what I don't understand is:

* I boot the ubuntu i386 installer on my machine
* Partitioner says that the my 200 meg disk drive is /dev/hda
* I install to /dev/hda
* the system fails to boot
* I boot from a live cd and mount /dev/hda
* I change /boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/fstab to say "hde" instead of "hda"
* the system boots

So, the problem really is in the fact that the install disks enumerate differently compared to the normal system.

As far as disk drives go, this is horribly broken. Changing the disk drive enumeration (and only the disk drive enumeration) will only have the effect of fixing the broken systems. Any systems that are working will not break. (heh, except mine since I had to manually patch hde into it)

Either the install system needs to change or something else does.

jeff