On 6 June 2015 at 15:47, Barry Drake <ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com> wrote: > On 06/06/15 14:40, Colin Law wrote: > >> I that case perhaps, as I suggested, you did not tell the installer to >> use sdb for boot. > > > As Ubuntu is now so quick and easy to install, I popped a spare 80GiB drive > into my caddy, and repeated the exact procedure to install onto sdc (the > 80GiB drive). > 1) Boot from DVD. > 2) Select 'Install Ubuntu' from the first partition. > 3) Followed defaults after selecting 'Erase disk and install Ubuntu', and > selecting sdc as the disk to be erased. > At no point was there anything to ask where I wanted grub to go. I think > this can only be done from the manual install screen. As on the second > occasion, there was no message about the boot not being compatible with > legacy BIOS. > > After the requested restart at the end of the installation, grub had been > installed and updated to sda, and showed Mint, and the two installations of > Ubuntu (the one on sdb and the one on sdc). sdc itself had not been made > bootable. >> >> >> That does not explain why it would not boot off sdb the first time, >> but it is may be too late to work that out now. > > > It is also very difficult to understand why there were two differences in > behaviour from the same DVD. On the first installation, I was taken to a > grub screen to select Live DVD, installation or OEM installation. The second > and third time, I did not get this, or the subsequent warning about no > compatibility with legacy BIOS.
I have not got a Wily install DVD so cannot check at the moment. Immediately on booting from the DVD do you get, for a few seconds, a picture of a man and keyboard at the bottom of screen? If so what happens if you immediately hit a key? Will come back to the other issues. I think I will have to download Wily, which takes several hours on my slow broadband :( See below also. > The disk is read only, and finalised. I > can't think where the installer might have stored the new information ... > The reason I am asking all this is because I understand so little about the > installer itself - It's wonderful unless you have more than one disk drive > available. > > I always follow the installation defaults whenever I install the testing > version, as I assume that is what the majority of folk will do. That way, > hopefully, problems I find will be similar for most folk. I suppose I could > burn a fresh DVD and do another fresh install to sdc to see what happens, > but if the information is not on the DVD, I guess the same would happen as > before. > > Back to me real question - how can I report this strange behaviour? I do > regard it as a bug. I think first it is worth while working out exactly what happened, but when you get round to it I believe you should run from the DVD and then ubuntu-bug ubiquity See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage > > > Regards, Barry. > -- > http://barrydrake.co.nr/ > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
