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I received errors when installing Lubuntu 11.10 on two different systems both
with a BSD partition.
Case 1: Extended partition SDA3 at start of disk with some logical partitions.
One of these logicals will hold Lubuntu. SDA1 and SDA2 both primary at the end
of the disk holding BSD. I created SDA1 and SDA2 first at the end, after that I
created SDA3 using all space left.
During install, it failed and I couldn't boot the system into my new installed
Lubuntu. Talking from memory, I think I could still boot into an older Ubuntu
install.
I removed both BSD partitions (I was only testing OS-ses so no problem) and the
install went perfectly.
Case 2: SDA1 = primary WindowsXP, SDA2 extended, one of the logicals will hold
Lubuntu, SDA3 and SDA4 BSD.
Now again I received an error during install but could boot Lubuntu without any
problems and couldn't find anything wrong after using it.
I strongly suspect that installing grub fails because of the BSD
partitions during install, however when running update-grub from an
installed system I get no problems at all though of course the BSD
partitions are still skipped. I was able to add them manually by
modifying 40_Custom in /etc/grub.
If my guess is correct I suggest trapping the error when it finds a
partition it can't handle and just ignore that partition.
Apologies if I'm posting in the wrong location if so could you point me
in the right direction.
** Affects: lubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: bsd installation lubuntu partition
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Install fails likely caused by a BSD partition.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/907716
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