Public bug reported:
I ran the Ubuntu 6.06 i386 Live CD on a system with a 6.5GB hard drive
which had previously been in use on another system. I don't know if the
disk was physically bad or what, but I got insane amounts of errors from
/dev/hda6 for about half an hour, until I simply stopped trying to boot
the Live CD.
Turns out that booting with my trusty old Woody 2.88 rescue disk and
removing all partitions from the hard drive solved the problem nicely,
at least for the time being. I was able to install Ubuntu on the drive
without a hitch now.
(The possibly bad blocks are in the swap partition now ... I wonder how
that will work out.)
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Untriaged
Status: Unconfirmed
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LiveCD thrashes if hard disk malformatted
https://launchpad.net/bugs/60517
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