interesting (well to me) after reading about the other bug i realized i have a external USB drive connected to the back of my pc. completely forgot (sorry i dont use it much). i must have disconnected it when i was trying to figure out what went wrong during the installation. the external drive is a ide drive in a USB casing.
i tried 3 installs to combine DDE ON/OFF with the USB drive Plugged Unplugged ========================================== DDE ON (& USB Drive plugged in) (third test) bad boot menu after istallation. i noticed these things sda: 160 gb sata sdb: 40 gb ide sdc: 250 gb external i tried to change the hard disk boot order in the bios to what the installer assumed #1: 160 gb sata #2: 40 gb ide #3: 250 gb external (my bios recognizes it as a hard disk although it doesn't say what kind) suprisingly it worked after this. the boot menu must have been installed to the sata drive. and the old boot menu of linux mint that looks like the one of ubuntu must have confused me into thinking it was ubuntu's. but then how did it appear after a new installation. maybe grub has access per directory and not per partition sector. all this more confusing because i had PCLinux OS 2007 installed right before i tested ubuntu again. well anyway, ill stop speculating. you guys probably know much better :p ========================================== DDE OFF(& USB Drive plugged in) (first test) bad boot menu after installation sda: 160 gb sata sdb: 40 gb ide sdc: 250 gb external ========================================== DDE OFF (& USB Drive UNPLUGGED) (second test) good boot menu everything working fine including xp pro sda: 40 gb ide sdb: 160 gb sata ========================================== still strange that a USB drive that has been put last (third) to boot in the bios changes the order of the first 2 drives around. greetings, venom -- ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386 installation: /boot/grub/menu.lst mis-configured https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222464 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
