GRUB option in installer

[Sitsofe Wheeler]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 13:59 -0700, David Cheung wrote:

> Anyway, the reason why this was a problem for me is that the install
> prog did not install GRUB anywhere and the ubuntu partition was
> unreachable for the exact time of 3 hours and 12 minutes.  I searched
> a few public forums and found the workaround for this (generating my
> own GRUB menu.lst and manually finding the ubuntu partition by trial
> and error).  The installer did show that GRUB was installed, but when
> the system rebooted, it did not boot into ubuntu as expected: it went
> to XP as usual.

It might be worth filing a bug about that if you can find an unusual
cause. The only time I've seen something like that happen is when the
BIOS is using another disk's MBR to boot (i.e. you didn't select the
Ubuntu disk to actually boot off in the BIOS).

> Other than that, after I was finally able to access the Ubuntu system,
> I found it to be lots of eye candy and nicely finished.  I was a
> little disappointed that the media player did not play my .avi files
> right off the bat (I watch a lot of these).

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats explains why (I
won't rehash it here).

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