Public bug reported:
Installing Edgy on an IBM A22m Thinkpad, Ubiquity would seemingly hang
when either:
a) attempting to resize an NTFS partition for the install or
b) halfway though copying files if / partition already created before running
desktop installer
Looking in syslog I noticed ubiquity was detecting bad sectors on the
HDD, but it does not relay this information to the end user. Using the
alternate CD for the install, a large red box will appear telling the
user that the HDD is bad, as opposed to just hanging.
I think notifying the user via the UI that bad sectors have been found
would at least help the user know why the installer has hung.
Oddly enough Windows will happily install and run on this HDD, even
though chkdsk will consistently find errors/bad sectors.. I guess Linux
is a little more picky on what it will install on?
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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No notification in Ubiquity for bad sectors
https://launchpad.net/bugs/69176
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