Debian Squeeze now has this behaviour too. What actually happens is that the lower bound of the extended container, which is based on a cylinder boundary when created with eCOmStation's (OS/2) LVM disktool, is moved upwards to a MiB boundary by the Debian Squeeze / Ubuntu 10.04+ installation process.
This causes the eComStation Logical Volume Management system to fail, as it expects the extended container to start on a cylinder boundary. It would be very neighbourly if the Linux people would respect eComStations disk-layout and not touch the extended container. Since the extended container can potentially contain other bootable operating systems, this Linux installer behaviour could be considered quite anti-social, since it has no business messing with the extended container. There already exists a company that messes with parts of the disk it does not own for more that decades. Please don't duplicate this behaviour. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669459 Title: Ubuntu installation writes into foreign partitions and MBR without permission, damaging other operating systems on the disk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/669459/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
