Originally Posted by
shochatd
Last night I did the upgrade to 12.04 on my brand new Lemur Ultra, and all is well. However, there were a few hitches along the way:
1. The scariest moment was when it said that the device to install grub to was missing (!) or had a different name, and mentioned to options: /dev/hda and /dev/hda1. It said if I wasn´t sure to choose both (I think that is what it was saying). So I checked both and it worked. I´m sad to have seen this because it could be totally bewildering to someone who had no idea what these things mean. I´ve done many Ubuntu upgrades on various desktops and never seen this before. Now that the system is up and running, I see that / is on /dev/hda1. Does anyone know what was going on here?
-- David
Did the update today.
Like you I was unsure when I got to that point. Fortunately I have lots of PCs so I did some research on another PC before proceeding.
Like you I was a bit mystified as to which if any of a) "was missing" or b) "had a different name" applied.
I think / was on /dev/hda1 before your upgrade i.e. no change there.
I believe that you did not choose the correct option. I think you are supposed to choose only /dev/hda
The help available on that dialog box itself suggests only installing on the drive, not on partitions (if I recall correctly).
Also, this page http://knowledge76.com/index.php/Res...rub_Bootloader says
Important Note About GRUB Updates!
If you need to configure grub-pc (for example, after an update), installing grub to all devices will break GRUB. You will need to install to /dev/sda (not /dev/sda1) **only**. Installing everywhere **will** break the bootloader.
Given that it says "will break" but you do not appear to have "broken" I don't know what is going on.
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