[xubuntu-users] 12.04: bootloader didn't install?

[Piskie]

On 27/04/12 15:52, David Murphy wrote:
> Thanks for the response. Are you referring the the usual drop-down option in
> the partition setup stage? Because I ran through the install a second
> time to make sure I had set that to the right place, and it still didn't install the bootloader there.
>
> Dave
> glibdud at yahoo.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jörg Roesinger<chromefox at gmail.com>
> To: David Murphy<glibdud at yahoo.com>; Xubuntu Help and User Discussions<xubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Cc:
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 10:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] 12.04: bootloader didn't install?
>
> Hi,
>
> I had the same problem. It appears Xubuntu is trying to install grub
> into the mbr of /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sda by default. But you can
> change that during the installation process. Annoying tho.
>
> greetings,
>
> Jörg
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 4:36 PM, David Murphy<glibdud at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>> Hi folks. I ran Xubuntu briefly a few years back, and thought I'd check it out again as an alternative to Unity or Gnome Shell. Last night I tried to install (12.04, 64-bit), and though the install appeared to be successful, after rebooting, my old Debian-installed bootloader still came up. I reran the installation to verify that I was telling it to install to the MBR of my SSD, but it still didn't do it. (There is another HDD in the system, and when I tried booting from that I got a Grub rescue prompt, which may or may not have anything to do with Xubuntu.) The CD passed a media check. Before I spend a ton of time troubleshooting, are there any known issues that may have caused this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dave
>> glibdud at yahoo.com
>>
>>
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Just booted a 12.04 in vbox.

If you use one of the various options for partitioning except Something 
Else there appears to be no way to specify where bootloader goes.

Using Something Else then it is there directly underneath the various 
partition tool options.

Hope that helps

piskie