Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubiquity
Basically the Lucid 10.4 desktop install has been crashing and wiping out my entire hard-drive while trying to install besides OSX. So it happened first that I already had a partition and something similar to this bug happened https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222126 Basically I couldn't get into the system and rEfit didn't see a MBR. In order to get my machine to boot I had to reinstall OS X and I made more room for Ubuntu and tried again. This time it crashed during the partitioning and formatting. I had sent in a report but I don't see it on here, so I wanted to follow up with a bug report. What appears to be happening is even when I have already created the partition and formatted it, ubiquity tries to do something special for the partitions due to it being an apple. It creates a 1 meg BIOS partition and then it can't read the partitions as /dev/sda1 or whatever partition is unreadable by Linux. It is also unreadable by Mac. So there is something going extremely awry during the partitioning process on the Apple Intel Imac hardware. If it will help I might go through and do this again, but I also have to figure out the strategy for restoring my backup. Luckily I was able to copy the HFS partition using parted. ** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apple efi imac lucid -- Ubiquity crashes during partitioning on Intel Imac and wipes out MBR and renders machine unbootable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532484 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
