Hello Henrik, Glad to hear you're on the case, and there is momentum behind this issue.
I have another possibility for you to add to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InstallerForWindows "Smart Boot Manager" http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html Summary: "Smart Boot Manager (SBM) is an OS independent and full-featured boot manager with an easy-to-use user interface. SBM now supports booting from CD-ROM." It's GPL'ed too! Perhaps SBM could be installable from the menu that pops up when you insert the Ubuntu CD while in Windows. SBM could be installed to the MBR allowing the default booting to CD (and optionally Windows, just in case). After SBM is installed to the MBR, then ask the user to simply reboot with the Ubuntu CD still in the drive. Then SBM could be used (from the MBR) to chainload boot to their Ubuntu CD, **thereby bypassing the need to change the BIOS settings**. The Ubuntu install process would then overwrite SBM in the MBR as it installs grub. Which is fine, as the purpose of installing Ubuntu is served. Note: Future booting from CD (say, to use a rescue CD later on) could still be made possible in this convenient fashion by the Ubuntu install process making a grub menu entry to boot SBM not from the MBR, but from the root filesystem of Ubuntu, much like memtest86 is done. Here is info on how to do that: "GRUB/Chainloaded CD-ROM" http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Chainloading_a_bootable_CD-ROM_from_GRUB Cheers, Dustin. On 4/26/07, Henrik Nilsen Omma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Assigning this to myself. I've charted the main options and written a > summary here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InstallerForWindows We'll discuss > this at UDS. Cheers, Dustin Harriman My Blog: http://ca.blog.360.yahoo.com/dustinharriman RSS Feed: http://ca.blog.360.yahoo.com/rss-RkGSoVA1brWtXrVH9Gr5CzgVujwwGg--?cq=1 "Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices" -Francis Moore Lappé -- end users should not have to access BIOS whatsoever to install Ubuntu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/57379 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
