This bug is still valid in Ubuntu 20.04. Selecting partitions
individually for bootloader installation will corrupt that partition.
Only drives should be selectable as options, not their partitions.
Selecting a partition is never valid and the ability to select them
needs to be removed.
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[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
days.]
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Expired
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** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
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I had a functioning dual-boot system with ubuntu-12.04.4 LTS and Windows
Vista (which was previous installed).
I wanted to setup a home-Server with that elder fujitsu-siemens Desktop
(pae-capable) and had the problem of too less space at the /home-directory at
the original 40GB (!!) drive.
I
We still see this. I see about one user a week having this issue and I
have to have them use testdisk to restore backup or use Windows repairs
to fix.
It seems to be in several different places. Original install under
Something Else or dpgk reinstall of grub. But in all cases it seems that
This bug affects me too, as a new Ubuntu12.04 user, I installed GRUB inside the
Windows partition, because I thought it would make Windows boot first. However,
this broke my Windows.
I can only boot on Ubuntu now.
Anyone knows how to delete the grub inside windows?
Afterward I think by simply
Max,
Ubiquity broke your Windows bootsector (not the MBR) by putting GRUB in it.
This can be fixed either via TestDisk or via a Windows recovery disc, see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootSectorFix
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Thanks for your help but unfortunatly it doesn't work,
I end up with:
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Disk /dev/sda - 320 GB / 298 GiB - CHS 38913 255 63
Partition StartEndSize in sectors
1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 32604 251 4
Then TestDisk cannot help. Try via a Windows disc:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootSectorFix#Via_a_Windows_disc
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1049549
Title:
Ubiquity manual
Another recent example : bug #1059623
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1049549
Title:
Ubiquity manual partitioning offers to install grub in a way that
breaks Windows boot
To manage
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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Title:
FYI, here are examples of XP that couldn't boot because GRUB stage1 has been
installed in its PBR:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/1144006
http://paste.ubuntu.com/1145142
Bug #1050653 (remark: this is NOT a duplicate)
Here are examples of Windows7 that could not boot because stage1 was in its PBR:
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