On 06/06/15 17:03, Colin Law wrote:
> Is it possible, on your first attempt, that before selecting the erase
> all option you had gone into the "Something Else" option and selected
> sdb as the boot loader destination? Unfortunately I have not got a
> spare machine at the moment and don't want to go past the Erase Disk
> option in case I accidentally erase my working system.
No, definitely not. It is only about a couple of weeks since I put a
new release on my netbook, so I did exactly what I wanted to do first
time, and that did mean I went straight to the 'Erase disk ... ' option.
I know what you mean about not wanting to go past the 'Erase disk'
option. I've clobbered a system accidentally before now, more than
once! Fortunately I usually have very recent backups, but even so, it
is a pain.
> When you go onto the page where you select which disc to erase is
> there nothing about boot loader destination?
Absolutely nothing anywhere. As far as I remember, I have never seen
that as an option unless I have wanted to use the 'advanced' manual
install option, and I never use that when testing. It has always gone
onto the same drive I am installing to up to this version, so something
has messed it up - and I think it has to do with the default being
changed to a FAT32 boot partition at the beginning of the disk. I guess
that is at the root of this bug.
Regards, Barry.
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