Comment 39 for bug 576724

"As any constructive ideas are missing here", huh?????????????????????

In my initial post I say:

"Consider the following options:

#1: Display nothing but drives, that is "sda", "sdb", etc, and NO individual partitions. But create another "advanced" tab/option to allow installation to a partition.

#2: Increase the amount of text explaining the difference between drives and partitions, why it's a bad idea to install to a partition etc. IMHO that's a horrible option. (The more text the less likely a new user is to read it.)

#3: Figure out a way to always have grub(2) install itself where it was to begin with. (maybe a bad idea if the original install was wrong.)

While I think option #1 is great I have no idea how complicated that would be."

Also this has absolutely nothing to do with the "installer".

This occurs during distribution upgrades and I assume even grub 2 package updates in Lucid.

The behavior is much safer and saner in both Karmic and Squeeze as it displays only drive designations as install points rather than including partition designations.

Whether this is a function of the grub-pc package or not I'm unsure.