Grub not installing when Xubuntu installs

[Jeff G.]

On 06/13/2012 07:41 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> 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.

Bodhi did the same thing to me while the installer specifically said it 
was using sda1 during the grub install process - menu is OK, just has 
the Bodhi on the slave drive as default - grub /was/ installed on sda1, 
it just isn't used.

So it would seem...