Unless, in its infinite wisdom of not identifying devices in BIOS order, Grub also decided to identify devices as whatever type it chooses rather than what they are. It could have "identified" the RAID controller connected CD/DVD as a hard drive even though it wasn't and choose to try updating that MBR.
For the record, FreeDOS still will not boot once KUbuntu is installed. I even cannibalized my machine down to one physical SATA drive and Grub STILL luggies up C: as far as FreeDOS is concerned.... siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh On Friday, October 15, 2010 06:32:00 pm you wrote: > @Danny Sauer > > This bug has been fixed. And as you have only one hard drive it could > not, by definition, have ever affected you. -- Roland Hughes, President Logikal Solutions http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com http://www.infiniteexposure.net No U.S. troops have ever lost their lives defending our ethanol reserves. -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
