On 04/26/2015 02:54 PM, Brendan Perrine wrote:
On Sunday, April 26, 2015 8:18:08 PM UTC, Aere Greenway wrote:
I know it successfully wrote the GRUB-PC bootloader to the hard-drive
of the machine being installed-to, because that system worked fine,
and the new system is the one that is initially selected in the GRUB
menu (it used to be a different system).
If you have bootloadaer install problems with disks I find I sometimes
don't expeirence these problems. This can also happen if you have a
desktop with many disks in it but then again you may want a custom
setup if that is your usecase. I don't really think my mom would come
home from the store with a desktop with 3 disks inside it.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1431067 describes
one such problem I had but could never reproduce this with manual
partitioning. A recent jupiter broadcasting podcast from Fridat
suggest thsi might be more widespread and may also affect 14.04 in
which case getting this fixed for 14.04.3 will be really ncie since it
is long term support and what I would want most new or non technical
users on anyway.
Brendan:
All of my machines have multiple partitions, and I always do manual
partitioning. The USB drive itself (in this case) has only one
partition, but often (not in this case) I create USB drives with an
additional partition, which the USB drive system can access (as well as
other systems), and read/write files from/to.
If it hadn't successfully written the GRUB-PC boot loader to the
hard-disk (of the machine being installed-to), the other old system
partition (Lubuntu 14.01.3) would have booted by default (the top menu
entry in the GRUB menu).
The partition GRUB is last written-to becomes the system that boots
by-default, and the newly-installed system became the top entry of the
GRUB menu.
I have not (before 15.04) experienced the case where the USB drive
becomes un-bootable after installing from it. I have used USB drives
for installing in several prior releases (though I started using
Unetbootin only with 14.04 and 14.10).
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Sincerely,
Aere
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