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. 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
>
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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