I've identified two distinct problems here, which I would like to fix for beta-1 if at all possible. I'm leaving the debian-installer task as Confirmed for the time being because I'm not absolutely sure I've got all the pieces, but the ones I have identified are high-value.
The first problem is that, when we create an Apple-specific synced MBR for a GPT label which contains a bios_grub partition, the corresponding MBR partition table entry is not given the 0xEE partition type. This means that the Linux kernel will refuse to recognise this as a valid GPT label, completely breaking installation. I believe this is an easy fix in parted. The second problem is one I noted in a comment in partman-auto a while back: the automatic label detection that decides whether we need to create a bios_grub partition during automatic partitioning does not work with partman-auto-lvm. This should be a matter of making sure that we're in an appropriate subdirectory of /var/lib/partman/devices/ before calling decode_recipe. -- automatic partitioning broken on Intel Macs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538536 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
