[Bug 1481516] Re: ubuntu installer modifies EFI configuration on wrong harddrive

[Sub-atomic-fusion]

After physically disconnecting my old harddrive, the installer placed
the bootloader on the correct harddrive.

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Title:
  ubuntu installer modifies EFI configuration on wrong harddrive

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  During installation, users are asked to specify what harddrive they
  would like to install on, or in the advanced mode, what harddrive that
  would like to install the bootloader on. At least with EFI, this
  selection seems to be disregarded.

  This has happened to me three different times. The first two times, I
  was installing Ubuntu onto an external harddrive, and after very
  carefully instructing it to install the bootloader onto the external
  harddrive, it mangled EFI setup of the internal harddrive both times
  (once each on machines with Mac and Ubuntu installed internally). The
  third time was today, where Windows was on one harddrive and I was
  installing Kubuntu on a blank harddrive that I had just added. I
  intended to use the new, Linux harddrive primarily, and I set my BIOS
  to boot from it, but I didn't see any reason to take the old one out
  of the computer. After installing, the system would not boot, and it
  was only when I tried to boot into Windows that I found that grub had
  been installed on the wrong harddrive.

  I don't have an exact version of Ubiquity, but the Kubuntu 15.04 image
  that I downloaded today did this. To be clear, the first two times I
  was using Ubuntu (not Kubuntu) 15.05.

  Description:    Ubuntu 15.04
  Release:        15.04

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