** Description changed: The user has an nForce4 motherboard with both SATA and PATA drives attached. He set the SATA drive to be the first boot disk in the BIOS, - but the installer installed GRUB on to the PATA drive instead. + but the installer installed GRUB to MBR on to the PATA drive instead. Linux recognizes the PATA as /dev/sda and the SATA as /dev/sdb. To work around the problem, he has set the first boot disk to the PATA drive.
-- Installer doesn't recognise SATA disks as primary. https://launchpad.net/bugs/32357 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs