[Bug 669459] Re: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk
** Changed in: partman-base (Ubuntu) Assignee: Colin Watson (cjwatson) = (unassigned) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669459 Title: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-base/+bug/669459/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 669459] Re: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk
This is still open? Has anyone tried this on Precise? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669459 Title: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-base/+bug/669459/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 669459] Re: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk
This also happens when using Boot It Bare Metal(http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-bare-metal.htm) as a boot manager and Kubuntu 12.04. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669459 Title: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-base/+bug/669459/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 669459] Re: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk
Colin - files sent to your canonical.com e-mail address. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669459 Title: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-base/+bug/669459/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 669459] Re: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk
Also there is a Launchpad question for the same topic, I moved that to partman-base. There is bootinfoscript output: http://paste.ubuntu.com/805639/ But obviously bootinfoscript is not aware of MBR boot code written by IBMs Boot Manager, it falsely declares the MBR to be empty. The script was run on my current configuration, where IBM Boot Manager takes care of booting all my six OS on the disk. Boot Manager has a partition of its own (sda3). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669459 Title: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-base/+bug/669459/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 669459] Re: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk
partman log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/818254/ installer syslog: http://paste.ubuntu.com/818256/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669459 Title: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-base/+bug/669459/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 669459] Re: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk
I'd be happy to send you the requested files. I'm logged in as administrator but the system tells me permission is denied. Another bug? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669459 Title: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-base/+bug/669459/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 669459] Re: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk
I doubt it; I suspect you're a non-root user with sudo permissions, so the system is behaving as designed. You can use a root shell to copy the files to somewhere readable. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669459 Title: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-base/+bug/669459/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 669459] Re: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk
It would be really helpful if somebody could attach /var/log/installer/syslog and /var/log/installer/partman from an Ubuntu installation that has damaged the partition table in this way. ** Changed in: partman-base (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Colin Watson (cjwatson) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669459 Title: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-base/+bug/669459/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 669459] Re: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk
I'll throw this over to partman-base while I ponder on exactly where to fix it. Thanks for observing that partman/alignment=cylinder is a workaround; that suggests some useful possibilities. Oliver, ubiquity doesn't have a separate upstream existence - it's a package in Ubuntu and that's as far upstream as it goes, which is why you got that message about it not tracking its upstream bugs in Launchpad. The Ubuntu task here is fine. ** Package changed: ubiquity (Ubuntu) = partman-base (Ubuntu) ** No longer affects: ubiquity ** Changed in: partman-base (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669459 Title: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-base/+bug/669459/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 669459] Re: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk
B y pure chance I hit the Also affects project button, and the screen that comes up then says that ubiquity doesn't track it's bugs on Launchpad. My goodness. So I have decided to use the dialog that reports this bug as being upstream, but it has not yet been reported there. Let's hope that we now got the attention of the right people to this critical bug... ** Also affects: ubiquity Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669459 Title: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubiquity/+bug/669459/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 669459] Re: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669459 Title: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubiquity/+bug/669459/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 669459] Re: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk
So now that a couple of other users say there parition layout has been killed, too: Could someone at least please markt the bug Confirmed - as the bug reporter I would be hesitant to do this myself. It is a shame that no one finds a bug that kills other operating systems on the disk important enough to introduce a fix. Previously I only thought Windows would be so anti-social to not respect what other OSes wrote on the disk. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669459 Title: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/669459/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 669459] Re: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk
This BUG is worse than any I've ever experienced. PLEASE GIVE IT SOME HIGH PRIORITY!!! I am not a programmer, user only. I wish I could help fix it. I've seen this one cause a newly installed Ubuntu 10.10 installation to not boot using IBM boot manager. Boot manager was set up to point to that specific Linux drive but now, boot manager can't see or edit it. When trying to boot, the screen comes back and says the drive is not formatted. Yet I can boot from a cd and look at the drive and see that there are the Linux directories present. Strangely enough, the OS2 install survived it. In another instance, the OS/2 drives are rendered inert. In both cases however, the windoze installs have survived. This one is also reported on the eComstation bug list. Please help. This one is more serious than given credit for being. There are business files and such involved here. It's back up but so what? That doesn't fix the problem. Please find a way to repair damaged drives. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669459 Title: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/669459/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 669459] Re: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk
The kernelparameter 'partman/alignment=cylinder' seems to fix this behaviour. When you add the 'partman/alignment=cylinder' kernel-parameter before starting the Linux installation, the partitioner will not realign the extended partition to MB-boundaries and eCS LVM-info will be preserved. So, installing Ubuntu 10.10 will go like this: - Create the extended partition (and swap) with eCS MiniLVM - Boot from the Ubuntu live CD - Press a key to get the menu (this takes a second before being displayed) - Choose your language - Press F6 - Press ESC Now you see the line with the kernel-parameters that looks something like this: . quiet splash -- Insert the partman-parameter, so the line reads like: . quiet splash partman/alignment=cylinder -- Double-check you spelled the parameter correctly. Now proceed with the Linux installation. Note: I have not tested this on non-Debian derived distro's. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669459 Title: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/669459/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 669459] Re: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk
Debian Squeeze now has this behaviour too. What actually happens is that the lower bound of the extended container, which is based on a cylinder boundary when created with eCOmStation's (OS/2) LVM disktool, is moved upwards to a MiB boundary by the Debian Squeeze / Ubuntu 10.04+ installation process. This causes the eComStation Logical Volume Management system to fail, as it expects the extended container to start on a cylinder boundary. It would be very neighbourly if the Linux people would respect eComStations disk-layout and not touch the extended container. Since the extended container can potentially contain other bootable operating systems, this Linux installer behaviour could be considered quite anti-social, since it has no business messing with the extended container. There already exists a company that messes with parts of the disk it does not own for more that decades. Please don't duplicate this behaviour. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669459 Title: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/669459/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 669459] Re: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk
My LVM information was corrupted, too. After trying Ubuntu 10.10 in Virtualbox and as Live CD with success, I installed into free space following my eCS / OS/2 LVM partitions, just to make the disk unusable until restoring a backup. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669459 Title: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 669459] Re: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk
I'm also very unhappy with 10.10 destroying my OS/2 LVM information. I'll add that I had a couple of preexisting swap partitions on different drives and these drives also had their LVM tables corrupted -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669459 Title: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 669459] Re: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk
** Summary changed: - Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission + Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669459 Title: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
