Public bug reported:
I installed Ubuntu 9.04 beta a system with one internal hard drive and one
external USB attached hard drive.
Ubuntu was installed on the external drive. The installer, however, installed
the Grub boot loader on the internal hard drive overwriting the MBR of that
disk without asking where I would like to install the boot loader.
Unfortunately, the internal hard drive contained a Windows installation and was
using full disk encryption software (Utimaco SafeGuard) so now it can't be
booted. All the data on the disk is probably unrecoverable.
The installer should ask the target location of the boot loader.
Also, it would be good if the installer could check if the existing boot block
contains something other than the basic Windows boot loader, and would issue
extra warnings if this is the case.
The installer could also automatically make a copy of the existing boot block
in the Linux installation since installing the boot loader is the last thing to
be done during the installation process.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Master boot record overwritten by installer
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356095
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