[Bug 1049549] Re: Ubiquity manual partitioning offers to install grub in a way that breaks Windows boot
Marcus Tomlinson
marcus.tomlinson at canonical.com
Thu Mar 5 12:12:08 UTC 2020
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** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
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Title:
Ubiquity manual partitioning offers to install grub in a way that
breaks Windows boot
Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
The "Something else" option (= manual partitioning screen) allows the user to change the location where GRUB stage1 will be installed.
("Device for bootloader installation" combobox).
AFAIK, the default entry in this combobox is /dev/sda. Currently the combobox also allows to select any partition (eg /dev/sda1 , /dev/sda2...)
The following entries break Windows boot and MUST be removed:
- all partitions (eg /dev/sda1 , /dev/sda2...) containing Windows boot files (bootmgr, ntldr). In other words, all partitions detected as "Windows" by os-prober.
Probably the problem is the same with systems other than Windows, so I
recommend to remove all partitions detected by os-prober.
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