Comment 4 for bug 1687333

I have for a while been dual booting a stable install alongside a development install even on external drives. This does not have the grub panicing if a drive is missing in bios mode with a missing drive and goes into recovery mode with even less options. Granted the choosing wrong partition can be a problem with catostrophic results. Although I am not sure this is good for others but I memorize which partition not to touch.

Also hardware affecting bugs can happen in the installer but maybe not as often see bug #1675127 which has quite specific of not being connected over ethernet and have a broadcom 4322 that the installer sees and does not have drivers for in every ubuntu release I have used except the broadcom proprietary ones.