Just as an aside: Personally, I think this is a release critical bug. First, I don't like updating my OS in place, even as Ubuntu/Debian make this as painless as possible. Sometimes, an update still goofs. Second, I like to test alpha versions of Ubuntu (Kubuntu, actually) on my physical hardware instead of virtual machines, but I still need a "production" installation. So, my disk layout is like this:
* Two small primary partitions as ext2 filesystems (sda1 & sda2). These are /boot for 2 parallel installations. * An extended partition filling the rest of the disk. (sda3) * In that, a logical partition filling the extended partition (sda5). This one is encrypted because my machine is a laptop. * A LVM Physical Volume in sda5_crypt, the sole member of the Volume Group "system". * 4 Logical Volumes in VG system: ** root1/ext4 as / for my first installation ** root2/ext4 as / for my second installation ** swap/swap shared between both installations ** home/ext4 shared between both installations Right now, an installation of Natty will at best abort and at worst drop the LVM, shredding /home in the process. Without encryption, there's no real need for LVM and everythings works fine with simple partitions. I took a look at Debians bugs and found http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=566497 ("Install: Please support reusing existing crypt-lvm partitions"), so maybe this bug will be considered upstream? Thanks fpr looking into this, Jochen ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #566497 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=566497 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285890 Title: Does not show encrypted partition -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
