On 25-11-12 18:46, Brian Potkin wrote:
On Sun 25 Nov 2012 at 17:47:07 +0100, Bart-Jan Vrielink wrote:
On 24-11-12 21:47, Steve McIntyre wrote:
When you boot the installer on your system, do you see a grub boot
menu or an isolinux boot menu?
At first I used the mini.iso file. That one only showed an isolinux
(I assume, I did not recognize it as grub) option. With that one, I
eventually managed to do a test-install using "classic" grub2.
However, the installer tries to install to /dev/sda, which is the
USB stick I booted from. Please try to make it smart enough to pick
/dev/sdb (which I did manually).
When you relate ". . . the installer tries to install to /dev/sda, . ."
do you mean it tried and failed or it tried and succeeded?
Tried and failed. (fortunately). During installation, /dev/sda is my USB
stick used to boot the installer, /dev/sdb is my first SSD and /dev/sdc
my second. After installation, I expect /dev/sda and /dev/sdb to be my
first and second SSD's.
GRUB tells you:
If all of your operating systems are listed above, then it
should be safe to install the boot loader to the master
boot record of your first hard drive.
In fact, GRUB will always install to /dev/sda, which may or may not be
the MBR of your first hard drive. I do not know why this screen cannot
say GRUB will go in the MBR of /dev/sda.
Also, how could GRUB guess you really wanted it in the MBR of /dev/sdX?
I think this is why you are given the opportunity to decline its offer.
Well, maybe because it is not that unusual to boot off an USB stick in
order to install the OS? More and more laptops come without optical
drives these days, and an installer should be able to cope with that...
Yeah, there is a manual option to override, but GRUB should be smarter
than that, and attempt to install to the first drive on which software
was installed to, and not just the alphabetically first drive.
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