You have been subscribed to a public bug by Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand):
Using Ubuntu 7.10 desktop amd64 cd-image downloaded from website
2008/02/26.
I was trying to install from within the started live-cd session, using
the install button on the desktop.
The installer hang (note: this is not the actual bug i am talking about)
after copying the files in the attempt of obviously (as reported by df)
mounting several existing ntfs partitions from my drives into one
mounting point (/var/lib/os-prober/mount) for whatever reason (looks
like some known issues in mount.ntfs-3g 1.913...). After some hours of
waiting and realizing nothing at all went on i cancelled the install.
When giving up, and trying to reboot into my existing windows installation, the
system was unbootable. It only said "Grub stage 1.5" "Error 5".
I had to (partially) reinstall windows.
A serious installation CANNOT shoot an existing MBR and/or bootloader before
*knowing* that the new ones *will* work.
If the installer, or the mounting instances, are confused by
drives/partitions/whatever for whatever reasons, there is no reason to assume
that grub will reliably work. And since there were no files like grub.conf or
menu.lst in /boot, it cannot work at all, AFAICT.
I consider this a serious mistake in the design of the installation
procedure, and a reason not to trust ubuntu at all, until this flaw is
obviously made impossible.
Sorry for ranting.
Arno Waschk
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Hanging ntfs-mounts leave system unbootable when install is cancelled
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/196075
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