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> There is an age old Ubuntu bug (which bleeds into many Ubuntu based Distributions) where the installer wipes out the bootloader of a drive that you aren't ev

> There is an age old Ubuntu bug (which bleeds into many Ubuntu based Distributions) where the installer wipes out the bootloader of a drive that you aren't even installing the OS on Can you link bug report? Personally I never encountered it (and while I had some corruptions over time I would say that Windows is even worse here and I would not call it to be in hobbyist tweaker mode)

wintermutestwin 5y ago
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1229488 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1229... This link talks in detail about the problem and its solutions (all of which were more time suck than I was willing to commit): https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=287353 https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=287353
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
  Reported in 2013, still unassigned. I guess we should be thankful it hasn't been autoclosed by a stalebot or marked WONTFIX yet.
kitsunesoba 5y ago
I've encountered a couple of times. In my case it screwed up the bootloader of a hackintosh macOS install on a drive the installer gave no indication it was going to do anything to. Thankfully fixing it wasn't too bad, but it shouldn't have happened in the first place. No other distro I've installed shares this problem.