I have now confirmed this bug to be hardware independent by reproducing it in a VirtualBox VM. I have also now tested this technique using the current Jaunty images, and found it to work correctly in Jaunty as well as Hardy. So it appears to me that only Intrepid is affected by this bug. I was informed in IRC that it's highly unlikely that anyone will attempt to debug the issue in Intrepid, and as Jaunty appears unaffected, that I should just forget about this bug. On the off chance that anyone cares to reproduce this bug, I will supply the exact steps I followed to reproduce the issue in a Virtual Machine:
1) Create a VM 2) Partition the virtual HDD sda1 ext2 2gb sda2 swap 512mb sda3 ext2 1gb sda4 ext2 4.5gb 3) Install grub to MBR, grub files to sda1/boot/grub 4) copy these 3 files to the root of sda3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/initrd.gz http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/vmlinuz http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.10/ubuntu-8.10-alternate-i386.iso 5) edit sda1/boot/grub/menu.lst to include: title Ubuntu Alternate Installer (on /dev/sda3) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 ramdisksize=128000 initrd /initrd.gz 6) reboot the machine, booting the alternate installer entry 7) answer the installer questions, and when the "[!!] Partition Disks" step is reached, no HDD will be available to partition, though swapping to the busybox shell and using fdisk will show the HDD fine. To show that this technique works in Hardy and Jaunty, just replace the files in step 4) with the ones appropriate for the other versions, and when "[!!] Partition Disks" is reached, the HDD is available to be partitioned. It may be possible to reproduce this bug with a simpler partitioning scheme, but I did not attempt any other schemes. Anyway, I'm done with this bug, unless someone contacts me requesting more information. I'm going to use Hardy on the machine in question until Jaunty is officially released, then I may upgrade to Jaunty. Tom -- intrepid alternate install fails when booted from hdd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/310260 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
