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

[Barry Drake]

On 06/06/15 17:03, Colin Law wrote:

 > Is it possible, on your first attempt, that before selecting the erase
 > all option you had gone into the "Something Else" option and selected
 > sdb as the boot loader destination?  Unfortunately I have not got a
 > spare machine at the moment and don't want to go past the Erase Disk
 > option in case I accidentally erase my working system.

No, definitely not.  It is only about a couple of weeks since I put a 
new release on my netbook, so I did exactly what I wanted to do first 
time, and that did mean I went straight to the 'Erase disk ... ' option. 
  I know what you mean about not wanting to go past the 'Erase disk' 
option.  I've clobbered a system accidentally before now, more than 
once!  Fortunately I usually have very recent backups, but even so, it 
is a pain.

 > When you go onto the page where you select which disc to erase is
 > there nothing about boot loader destination?

Absolutely nothing anywhere.  As far as I remember, I have never seen 
that as an option unless I have wanted to use the 'advanced' manual 
install option, and I never use that when testing.  It has always gone 
onto the same drive I am installing to up to this version, so something 
has messed it up - and I think it has to do with the default being 
changed to a FAT32 boot partition at the beginning of the disk.  I guess 
that is at the root of this bug.

Regards,        Barry.
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