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Re: GRUB2 Sucks!
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko |
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Re: GRUB2 Sucks! |
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Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:10:11 +0200 |
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On 28.03.2011 23:49, Ken Stump wrote:
> If that's the case, then it reinforces my point. It never should have
> been released in this "condition". And it doesn't install "where you
> tell it". It installs where it wants to which is probably in the
> coding of the program to screw with the first disk it comes to. But
> then why would it also screw up two other drives at the same time?
> Can't it "search" in a "read only" mode for the Linux partition
> instead of corrupting everything it finds? Linux doesn't normally
> install on an NTFS partition.
>
> Thanks for the responses, but there has been nothing in the way of
> practical information.
>
I already told you all of it.
If you want to install to sda you do:
grub-install /dev/sda
If you want to install to sdb you do
grub-install /dev/sdb
And so on. Unless grub-install or grub-setup is called, GRUB won't be
installed.
How Debian or Ubuntu or any other distro calls the grub-install during
update is out of what this mailing list handles. I'm aware that
sometimes Debian or Ubuntu launches grub-install with wrong argument but
we just do what is told us to do.
You wouldn't scream at coreutils if someone launched "rm -rf /" on your
system. Same, please, don't scream at GRUB2 because packaging instructed
it to install itself to wrong disk.
A a side note to change install devices in Debian/Ubuntu it's
sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc
As for bugreporting on packaging bugs, it's launchpad.
> Personally, I'll go back to 8.10 with regular GRUB until a stable,
> reliable release. I have a feeling that's going to take some time to
> happen because I don't think you even grasp the magnitude of this.
> You've essentially created a new Microsoft. And one of those was more
> than enough.
>
> Ken
>
> --- On *Mon, 3/28/11, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
> /<address@hidden>/* wrote:
>
>
> From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: GRUB2 Sucks!
> To: "Ken Stump" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Monday, March 28, 2011, 2:57 PM
>
> On 28.03.2011 20:06, Ken Stump wrote:
> > No. I'm not "trolling". I'm fed up! And you are incorrect
> about it
> > being installed in the wrong drive. Had you read the whole email, I
> > specifically said that I physically removed the internal hard
> drive.
> > This was done preciously because GRUB2 does whatever it wants to do,
> > not what people want it to do!
> >
> GRUB2 just installs where it's told to install. Packaging may be
> confused by changing disk names and so may instruct GRUB2 to
> install to
> wrong drive
> > It was after I reinstalled the internal hard disk, and had done an
> > update to the installed Ubuntu 10.10 and rebooting was required that
> > if screwed up my internal hard drive. It also screwed up a
> second USB
> > drive that is nothing but a music depository. So why is it messing
> > with all these other drives?
> >
> Because Ubuntu was confused about which drive is which and so
> update/reinstall had installed to wrong device
> >
>
> --
> Regards
> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
>
>
>
--
Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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