<div dir="ltr"><div>I'm a little late to the game getting my 13.10 xubuntu system up to 12.04.1 Trusty, but I started today. I have a complaint and a problem. They're not the same.<br><br></div><div>The complaint is that the install process scared me, then turned out to be feckless -- I can't boot into the new system. The install took a while to detect that I have multiple operating systems on this machine. That's very true, but the scary part was that as soon as I told it I wanted to install alongside them rather than over them, it immediately began copying files. Where, I had to ask myself. Eeeek! I was expecting to be able to direct the install to my brand new SSD disk (/dev/sdd) that I bought for the purpose.<br>
<br></div><div>I let the install proceed, figuring that the damage, if any, was already done. It turns out that the install took the rest of my /dev/sda drive, all 1.36TiB of it. This seems extreme. But the final bit of complaining is that despite reporting that it was doing grub-update and such, when I went to reboot, I had the same GRUB menu as before -- no signs of 12.04 -- and the default took me right into my usual 13.10 system. At least I still have a usable system.<br>
<br></div><div>End of complaining.<br><br></div><div>Now the problem:<br><br></div><div>I resized the OS down to 32.00 GiB, and copied it over to /dev/sdd1 using gparted. I can mount it and browse throught it. But I'm not clear on how to get it to boot.<br>
<br></div><div>I think I've seen how-tos about that here an there. I'll be googling for such help. I hope it works better than the procedure built into the installer. But I couldn't hold myself back from the above complaint.<br>
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