Bug Description

Binary package hint: grub2

Yesterday I was updating from karmic to lucid from a WUBI installation.

During the upgrade of grub-pc, an information message appears telling me to choose in which devices grub2 showld be installed.

If you press OK (like a windows user does) everything will work, but if you read the help, you'll see this:

"If you're unsure which drive is designated as boot drive by your BIOS, it is often a good idea to install GRUB to all of them."

This will for sure destroy everything at the bootloader level!

TEST CASE: Install the original Ubuntu 10.04 LTS release via Wubi. Upgrade grub-pc to version 1.98-1ubuntu7 in lucid-updates (should fail) or to version 1.98-1ubuntu8 which I'll upload to lucid-proposed shortly (should work). The failing case will ask a confusing question and may render the system unbootable. The successful case should work without asking any questions, and on the next boot the version number should match the newly-installed version.

ProblemType: Bug

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04

Package: grub-pc 1.98-1ubuntu6

ProcVersionSign ature: Ubuntu 2.6.32- 22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2

Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64

Architecture: amd64

Date: Mon May 17 15:39:07 2010

InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)

SourcePackage: grub2