maybe i did not clearify myself. i will try to remember and explain myself:
1) i had a partition, formatted with windows (so id=7, fs = ntfs) 2) i installed ubuntu and chose to install it to hda2. i only formatted the partition with ext3 and did not change anything else 3) running grub failed and i suspected it was because of hda2 had partition id=7 instead of partition id=83. so grub failed to choose the proper stage (which should be e2fs_stage1_5) its not about messing up an existing windows partion, loosing data, etc. it is about chosing an existing windows partition to install ubuntu, and ubuntu only formats the disk (thats ok) but does not change the parition type and thus producing a grub error. cheers, raoul ps: maharaja != Raoul Teeuwen. Even thou the firstname matches, i'm a different person ;) -- fatal error on grub-install (hd0) related to partition type https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/180089 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
