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. On 7/11/06, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, sceptre0 wrote: > > > I installed Ubuntu 6.06 on both my laptop and desktop. The installer > > worked flawlessly on my desktop, but crashed about 10 times on my laptop > > before I got it installed. It also would not let me set up a separate > > partition for my home directory on my laptop, but it worked on my > > desktop. It was nice to boot into a Live CD to install the OS, but it > > was much slower and buggier than the 5.10 installer. Hopefully they get > > these issues worked out soon. > > Thanks for the confirmation. It's a really big mistake for the Ubuntu > group to distribute a major release with a very buggy installer. Really > sad because the thing works fantastically once you get past the early > stages of the installation. Not many inexperienced people will be able to > get through the first part of the installation. It's a big setback. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- http://ThreeWayNews.blogspot.com Your source. For everything. Really. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060711/49752138/attachment.htm