I found out why the installer crashed. I have a 40GB drive, partitioned in 2 parts: 30GB for Windows XP (NTFS) Active 10GB for Windows2000 (NTFS) Hidden
I was telling the installer to: 1) Resize te 10GB W2k partition to 7GB 2) Create ext3 partition of 3GB for Ubuntu I tried the installer again and it failed again and again, until I changed the partition table to UNHIDE the Win2000 partition. Every time the installer crashed, the NTFS Win2000 partition would not boot up anymore - I got the BLUE SCREEN of DEATH. After running a chkdsk, W2k came back up. Finally, after the partition was UNHIDDEN, the installer correctly resized the W2k partition, but CRASHED again while creating the 3GB ext3 partition. I was unable to collect the logs of that crash, but will attempt to re-install Ubuntu again today. FYI, after this final crash, W2k partition again doesn't boot up, telling me that it has lost some Windows DLL files. I'm not sure I will be able to recover this anymore. Will send files if anything new happens. IMPORTANT!!!! The installer NEVER told me that the partitioner had to be run on UNHIDDEN partitions. I think this was a major flaw. -- While partitioning the HD in Ubuntu install, Linux crashed https://launchpad.net/bugs/53536 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
