Hi, I run in this, as I tried to install 7.04. If you remove all this annoying quiet and splash strings from the boot options, you can see messages, that the BIOS reports another disk sizes than the disks themself. This information should be used. Then the installer at least should warn the user, that he is wasting his time, if he doesn't create a small boot partition at the beginning of the disk. If you want do more, you can: If the user decided, to use the entire disk for the installation, you can do some calculation for him. If there are other partitions, the user wants to keep, you could give him some advice, depending of his real disk size and his selected istallation type (server/desktop) and then switch to manual partitioning. AFAIK there are 3 different critical sizes for old BIOSes: 512MB, 8GB and 32GB, but it is possible to use a 200GB disk which the BIOS tells a capacity of 32GB.
Please remember, that a beginner, who runs in this problem, and doesn't get some hint, how to solve the problem, would think Ubuntu and/or Linux doesn't work on my machine and is lost for the community. -- /boot is on root partition by default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/88633 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
