Stephane, thank you for testing. Windows appears as "Windows Boot Manager" because that is the text returned by os-prober, presumably because it literally looks for the Windows boot loader on a partition. I suggest filing a bug with that project if you think it should be changed.
machrider, I agree that the installer should tell the user when it is going to wipe the entire hard drive. There are comments in the os-prober scripts to the effect "this is just a best effort, and will miss stuff". The patch I posted in comment #80 (ubiquity-better-desc.patch ) changes the descriptions to say that the hard drive will be wiped. It would be good to have an extra confirmation that the user understands their data really will be wiped. The multiple drives auto-partition also still needs to be fixed or blocked. I don't have any insight into what the maintainers of Ubiquity want to do about that (or about adding an extra confirmation), perhaps they will reply and let us know (imho the maintainers have been rather quiet, considering this is a serious bug that has been known about for 9 months and resulted in many people having their drives wiped, I would have thought this bug worthy of more attention). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of AIMS, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1265192 Title: Install/reinstall wipes out all/other partitions Status in elementary OS: New Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “ubuntu-livecd-image” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “ubiquity” source package in Trusty: Triaged Status in “ubuntu-livecd-image” source package in Trusty: Confirmed Bug description: Brand new Samsung laptop with UEFI. I had installed 13.04 Ubuntu but on reboot I never saw the 'grub' style menu. It just kept going into Windows 8.1. So I got the 13.10 version (64 bit) and choose "Reinstall Ubuntu" (That may not be the exact text) It removed all the partiions including the recovery partitions. I do have a backup for the windows install, but I was very surprised that this happened. On a positive note I now have Ububtu up and running on my machine. This is not my first time with Ubuntu. I have installed Ubuntu alongside WinXp, Vista and Windows 7. I've used Ubuntu desktop for over 6 years. If you would like me to try something to replicate this. .. I could shrink my existing partion make another one - reinstall and see if it whacks that one. I can do this now .. I'm still moving into this laptop so starting over is not so bad. Steve Devine To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+bug/1265192/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~aims Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~aims More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
