[Bug 641560] Re: Should switch bootloader default to device for /boot when the latter is selected as a mountpoint

[Brian Murray]

** Tags added: ubiquity-2.3.13

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Title:
  Should switch bootloader default to device for /boot when the latter
  is selected as a mountpoint

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  when installing I created partitions manually as follows
  a 209mb /boot
  a 11gb   /
  a 2.3gb swap
  and a 135gb /home

  the installer said it could not mount /boot

  I went back to the partition table and selected to install the mbr
  onto /boot  the default was /dev/sda i changed it to /dev/sda1

  
  ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ df -h
  Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
  aufs                  497M   81M  416M  17% /
  none                  491M  272K  491M   1% /dev
  /dev/sr0              694M  694M     0 100% /cdrom
  /dev/loop0            662M  662M     0 100% /rofs
  none                  497M  100K  497M   1% /dev/shm
  tmpfs                 497M   32K  497M   1% /tmp
  none                  497M   96K  497M   1% /var/run
  none                  497M  4.0K  497M   1% /var/lock
  none                  497M     0  497M   0% /lib/init/rw
  /dev/sr0              694M  694M     0 100% /media/apt
  /dev/sda5              10G  1.6G  7.9G  17% /target
  /dev/sda1             194M  8.4M  176M   5% /target/boot
  /dev/sda7             135G  2.8G  125G   3% /target/home
  ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l

  Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
  Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
  I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
  Disk identifier: 0x71f58dc5

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
  /dev/sda1   *           1          26      204800   83  Linux
  Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
  /dev/sda2              27       19457   156079477    5  Extended
  /dev/sda5              27        1342    10570738+  83  Linux
  /dev/sda6            1343        1646     2441848+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
  /dev/sda7            1647       19457   143066826   83  Linux
  ubuntu at ubuntu:~$

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.3.13
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Sep 17 11:54:31 2010
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta i386 (20100901.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity

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