Public bug reported:
The live-CD based installer (Ubuntu 8.10) does not preserve the kernel
options it is booted with to the installation it creates.
This means that if you boot the live-CD based installer with the kernel
options "noapic nolapic acpi=off" then the installation of Ubuntu it
creates does not have these options in the grub config file.
My friend needed to add these options because that is the only way she
could get the installer to boot. By not preserving them, this means
that the Ubuntu installation it created for her wouldn't boot!
This should be a relatively easy fix, since the Ubuntu installer can
inspect /proc/cmdline when it creates the grub menu.lst file, and
preserve any options such as these. This would of saved me a lot of
time explaining how grub works and how to configure it to her, and would
certainly have given her a better impression of Ubuntu.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Kernel options are not preserved by installer
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295949
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