Public bug reported:
When installing Ubuntu 10.10 I chose to install manually on /sde instead
of the default /sda. Installation hung a bit, but was otherwise ok. Upon
booting into my installation I noticed my drive on sda was not shown as
mountable. Upon further inspection it was shown the drive was being
listed as unformatted in gparted and disk utility. I found instructions
on using Test Disk to recover MBRs on disk and used the tool following
the tutorial. I was able to fully recover the MBR and the data on the
disk without difficulty. I'm not sure if the partition manager failed
here or if it was trying to install the boot loader on /sda and failed
in that way so I'm not sure what program to file the bug against.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: parted 2.3-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: c6f706b407fa9155748548a12cd5a198
CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002
Date: Mon Oct 11 22:55:49 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: parted
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug maverick
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Installer erases mbr on non-target disk during live disk installation
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/658970
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