Comment 16 for bug 987418

Thank you

Sayth

On Saturday, December 1, 2012, Erick Brunzell wrote:

> I changed that to verification-done based on testing Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
> "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20121130) which I grabbed from the QA
> tracker. If other flavors or architectures require testing please change
> that back to verification-needed with a list of flavors and/or
> architectures that require testing.
>
> That image does now default to selecting /dev/sda which is certainly
> more appropriate and less likely to place grub on an external device.
>
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>
> Title:
> manual partitioner: /dev/sdb (installation media) selected by default
> as device for boot loader installation
>
> Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in “ubiquity” source package in Precise:
> Fix Committed
> Status in “ubiquity” source package in Quantal:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> [Impact] The selected boot device in ubiquity's manual partitioner is
> sometimes wrong.
> [Test Case] See comment #11 for a VM setup that reproduces this bug.
> [Regression Potential] This is hairy code that has failed a number of
> times in the past, so it's worth checking that a few other setups still
> behave reasonably. It probably still won't be right in all cases (see e.g.
> bug 1066173 which I think precise may suffer from); this specifically
> addresses the case when installing from removable USB media onto a fixed
> disk, and ensuring that the boot loader defaults to the fixed disk.
>
> == If you are affected by this bug ==
>
> You can use Quantal beta or later images.
> You can use Precise post 12.04.1 daily images.
>
> Both are available from cdimages.ubuntu.com
>
> =====================================
>
> Precise Desktop 20120423
>
> During a side by side installation with an existing Ubuntu Precise on
> the system, with the manual partitioner from a usb stick, the selected
> device for boot loader installation was set to /dev/sdb by default
> (installation media)
> If the user doesn't pay attention to the selected value, the end of the
> installation will fail.
>
> When grub fails to install on /dev/sdb, it shows a dialog to select
> another device. I choose /dev/sda, it installs without a failure but
> I'm dropped to a grub prompt on reboot.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
> Package: ubiquity 2.10.16
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
> Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
> Architecture: amd64
> CasperVersion: 1.315
> Date: Mon Apr 23 19:01:48 2012
> InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper
> initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
> LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64+mac
> (20120423)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8
> TERM=unknown
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: grub-installer
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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