Did a fresh maverick install and then upgrade to Natty on a non-Windows partition. No prompt on where to install grub, and it updated wubildr correctly. After booting into Natty I could run "grub-install" and it correctly updated wubildr on the windows partition without any prompts and did not allow install to the drive MBR.
The following showed my tests :
bcbc@ubuntu:~$ mount | grep '/host'
/dev/sda3 on /host type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096)
bcbc@ubuntu:~$ sudo grub-install /dev/sda2
Installation finished. No error reported.
bcbc@ubuntu:~$ mount | grep /dev/sda2
bcbc@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
bcbc@ubuntu:~$ ls -l /mnt/wubildr
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 148091 2011-04-06 22:43 /mnt/wubildr
bcbc@ubuntu:~$ date
Wed Apr 6 22:43:33 PDT 2011
bcbc@ubuntu:~$ sudo grub-install /dev/sda
Installation finished. No error reported.
bcbc@ubuntu:~$ ls -l /mnt/wubildr
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 148092 2011-04-06 22:44 /mnt/wubildr
Did a fresh maverick install and then upgrade to Natty on a non-Windows partition. No prompt on where to install grub, and it updated wubildr correctly. After booting into Natty I could run "grub-install" and it correctly updated wubildr on the windows partition without any prompts and did not allow install to the drive MBR.
The following showed my tests : nodev,relatime, user_id= 0,group_ id=0,allow_ other,blksize= 4096)
bcbc@ubuntu:~$ mount | grep '/host'
/dev/sda3 on /host type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,
bcbc@ubuntu:~$ sudo grub-install /dev/sda2
Installation finished. No error reported.
bcbc@ubuntu:~$ mount | grep /dev/sda2
bcbc@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
bcbc@ubuntu:~$ ls -l /mnt/wubildr
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 148091 2011-04-06 22:43 /mnt/wubildr
bcbc@ubuntu:~$ date
Wed Apr 6 22:43:33 PDT 2011
bcbc@ubuntu:~$ sudo grub-install /dev/sda
Installation finished. No error reported.
bcbc@ubuntu:~$ ls -l /mnt/wubildr
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 148092 2011-04-06 22:44 /mnt/wubildr
bcbc@ubuntu:~$ sudo debconf-show grub-pc pc/kopt_ extracted: false kfreebsd_ cmdline: device_ map_regenerated : install_ devices: /dev/loop0 pc/postrm_ purge_boot_ grub: false pc/install_ devices_ failed_ upgrade: true pc/disk_ description: cmdline: pc/install_ devices_ empty: false kfreebsd_ cmdline_ default: quiet pc/partition_ description: pc/install_ devices_ failed: false pc/install_ devices_ disks_changed: cmdline_ default: quiet splash pc/chainload_ from_menu. lst: true pc/hidden_ timeout: true pc/mixed_ legacy_ and_grub2: true
[sudo] password for bcbc:
grub-
grub2/
grub2/
* grub-pc/
grub-
grub-
grub-
* grub2/linux_
grub-
grub2/
grub-
grub-
grub-
* grub2/linux_
grub-
grub-
grub-
grub-pc/timeout: 10