I had a huge problem configuring grub with the lastest Ubuntu installer. My first HD is a SATA drive (/dev/sda). A friend gave me an IDE drive that I use for backups (/dev/hdb). The installer kept insisting that /dev/hdb was the first drive, so I couldn't boot to anything until I edited my /boot/grub/menu.lst and
device.map.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Miller</b> <<a href="mailto:mbmiller@taxa.epi.umn.edu">mbmiller@taxa.epi.umn.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, sceptre0 wrote:<br><br>> I installed Ubuntu 6.06 on both my laptop and desktop. The installer<br>> worked flawlessly on my desktop, but crashed about 10 times on my laptop<br>> before I got it installed. It also would not let me set up a separate
<br>> partition for my home directory on my laptop, but it worked on my<br>> desktop. It was nice to boot into a Live CD to install the OS, but it<br>> was much slower and buggier than the 5.10 installer. Hopefully they get
<br>> these issues worked out soon.<br><br>Thanks for the confirmation. It's a really big mistake for the Ubuntu<br>group to distribute a major release with a very buggy installer. Really<br>sad because the thing works fantastically once you get past the early
<br>stages of the installation. Not many inexperienced people will be able to<br>get through the first part of the installation. It's a big setback.<br><br>Mike<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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