Good to know Jan. We noticed that more recently this issue would cause only a blinking question mark after reboot. We had generally been recommending the use of rEFIt (on a CD or USB drive) to sync the partition tables.
theOlster, What tools did you use to partition before installing? We have noticed that sometimes this occurs, and other times it does not, especially if you are installing over a partition that already existed. -- Partition Table is cleared during install on Intel Macs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222126 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mactel Support, which is the registrant for Mactel Support. Status in grub-installer: Invalid Status in Mactel Support: Fix Committed Status in “parted” source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “ubiquity” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in parted in Ubuntu Hardy: Triaged Status in ubiquity in Ubuntu Hardy: Invalid Status in parted in Ubuntu Intrepid: Triaged Status in ubiquity in Ubuntu Intrepid: Invalid Status in parted in Ubuntu Jaunty: Fix Released Status in ubiquity in Ubuntu Jaunty: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: ubiquity Ubuntu 8.04 Final Intel Macs have an EFI system and a GPT. The installer seems to handle the GPT correctly (as it has in the past), but it has recently come up that the installer is completely emptying the contents of the MBR partition table which is still required to boot Windows and Ubuntu (GRUB relies on the MBR partition table). The two tables are not synced automatically. When users install Hardy, they are suprised to find that the system is unbootable (the EFI loader cannot "see" the partition as bootable). a tool such as rEFIt or gptsync can copy the information in the GPT into the MBR table thus fixing the issue (for most). This is even more serious for users with other working OS installs in addition to Ubuntu (such as other linux distros and Windows) since it completely dumps the information needed to boot these installs as well. The expected procedure (and how the previous Ubuntu install seems to have handled it) is to 'update' both the GPT and the MBR table with changes instead of completely losing the information stored there. gparted / parted seemed to update both tables properly previously as well. I will be doing a full install on my iMac later and will be able to add additional information. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
