i had the same problem (with a copy of hardy from end of jan 08) and try
now with alpha4.

however: this bug left the system with a blank boot partition and it
could not boot other systems still present. this is ok for alpha
software and i know how to recover.

the important issue here is, that this bug reveals that the installation
process is not secure. it can leave the system in a state which it does
not boot what was before (and still is) on the disk (eg. other Linux,
windows). even if this bug is fixed, it would be worthwhile to rethink
the order of the installation process: removing/blanking the /boot disk
partition should come last, when a new boot partition is ready as an
image to be written (it will not likely be possible to make this a
database transaction 'commit' with a single action), thus reducing the
possibility that the boot partition is blanked but not written with the
new boot information, independent what the cause of interrupting the
installation process.

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