Grub not installing when Xubuntu installs

[chris]

On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 03:41 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 13 June 2012 18:15, Bill Stanley <bstanle at wowway.com> wrote:
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> Out of interest I have downloaded a copy of Xubuntu 12.04 and tried
> putting it on a test machine just this evening and it defaulted to
> installing GRUB onto /dev/sdb, the 2nd hard disk and the one with
> /home on it. Strange!
> 
> The root filesystem was on sda5 and it should have put GRUB onto /dev/sda.
> 
> So it does seem to me to be perfectly feasible for it to have picked
> the wrong drive for you - it did for me.
> 
> -- 
interesting.  I have only ever installed it on a single drive machine.
I must grab one with two drives and see what happens. 
There would have to be a reason for that as a default.