[Bug 389194] Re: Poor choice of device for installing GRUB

[Phillip Susi]

The drive numbering is determined by the bios, and doesn't matter.  What
matters is that there is no good way to choose a default location to
install grub to.  It isn't right for you, but changing it to be right
for you would make it wrong for someone else, hence, wontfix.  If you
have multiple drives in your system then you most likely will have to
change the grub install location.  That is the down side of the broken
PC bios architecture.

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Title:
  Poor choice of device for installing GRUB

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Invalid
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  My laptop runs Windows. But I booted up a Ubuntu LiveCD and installed to a Flash Drive. Surprisingly, GRUB got put onto my Windows hard drive instead of my Flash Drive. This was absolutely not what I'd expect, because one reason for installing to a USB device is to be
  able to have a portable Ubuntu installation. After Googling for a while I found out that I had to use the "Advanced" button to select a different location for installing GRUB.

  It would be much more new-user-friendly if the step where you choose the device on which to install Ubuntu would
  (1) automatically select the device you're installing to as the place to put GRUB
  AND
  (2) Output a message something like "GRUB will be installed on <your device>. Use the "Advanced" button to specify
  a different location."

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