FWIW: I have installed Kubuntu on this machine (typing from the fresh install) with the ALTERNATE installer. I told the installer to format the partitions. The machine has an ASUS A8V mobo (see lspci abvove). It has an old IDE drive in it and a big, fast SAMSUNG SATA drive. The (alternate) installer did not set up grub properly. The machine boots from the SATA drive as set up in the BIOS and as it are my preferences. But for Kubuntu's installer/grub the IDE-drive hda comes first. Grub is written into hda and thus never called - even if it would called, the device names hd0 and hd1 are switched. I had to manually boot via grub and edit menu.lst and tell grub-install to write to /dev/sda
Could this specific BIOS-Setup (and mix of IDE and SATA) cause this bug? Debian installs fine on this machine, even with hd-encryption. Windows-install is impossible without opening the case, detaching the IDE-cables and booting it via grub afterwards. -- [gutsy beta] installer hangs when formatting partitions https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
