Last night I tried installing lucid-alternate-amd64.iso built 05-Mar-2010 07:35 on my mac mini circa March 2009. I manually configure the disk partitions (I changed nothing because I already had the partitions that I needed from Ubuntu 9.10 release) simply marking the existing Ubuntu ext3 partition as "/". Saving that change results in my mini EFI loader no longer able to find any bootable systems (There used to be an OS X Leopard and an OS X snowleopard, now gone, horrors! *pants crapped*). Booting the OS X install CD and running the disk utility doesn't help -- it presents the disk as being totally unpartitioned.
The GParted live CD 0.5.1-3 saved my ass. Not the lovely graphical partition utility, mind you -- that presented everything looking great with no problems noted (gah!). But rather starting the terminal window in there and running TestDisk then choosing EFI GPT -> analyse -> Quick Search -> Write (that put things right again for booting my OS X partitions, hallelujah! *pants creamed*). I also ran rEFIt to correct the MBR because it was still misising 2 of the 5 partitions. It looks like this bug fix maybe the root of my problem, too. What build will include the "Fix Released" and that I could try next (will it be included in build 2010-03-07 or what)? -- libparted-2.1 ro funcs writing empty hybrid mbr on gpt disks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/529904 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
