[ubuntu-uk] Annoying installation problem ....

[Barry Drake]

On 06/06/15 14:40, Colin Law wrote:

> I that case perhaps, as I suggested, you did not tell the installer to
> use sdb for boot.

As Ubuntu is now so quick and easy to install, I popped a spare 80GiB 
drive into my caddy, and repeated the exact procedure to install onto 
sdc (the 80GiB drive).
1) Boot from DVD.
2) Select 'Install Ubuntu' from the first partition.
3) Followed defaults after selecting 'Erase disk and install Ubuntu', 
and selecting sdc as the disk to be erased.
At no point was there anything to ask where I wanted grub to go.  I 
think this can only be done from the manual install screen.  As on the 
second occasion, there was no message about the boot not being 
compatible with legacy BIOS.

After the requested restart at the end of the installation, grub had 
been installed and updated to sda, and showed Mint, and the two 
installations of Ubuntu (the one on sdb and the one on sdc).  sdc itself 
had not been made bootable.
>
> That does not explain why it would not boot off sdb the first time,
> but it is may be too late to work that out now.

It is also very difficult to understand why there were two differences 
in behaviour from the same DVD.  On the first installation, I was taken 
to a grub screen to select Live DVD, installation or OEM installation. 
The second and third time, I did not get this, or the subsequent warning 
about no compatibility with legacy BIOS.  The disk is read only, and 
finalised.  I can't think where the installer might have stored the new 
information ...  The reason I am asking all this is because I understand 
so little about the installer itself - It's wonderful unless you have 
more than one disk drive available.

I always follow the installation defaults whenever I install the testing 
version, as I assume that is what the majority of folk will do.  That 
way, hopefully, problems I find will be similar for most folk.  I 
suppose I could burn a fresh DVD and do another fresh install to sdc to 
see what happens, but if the information is not on the DVD, I guess the 
same would happen as before.

Back to me real question - how can I report this strange behaviour?  I 
do regard it as a bug.

Regards,		Barry.
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