booting ubuntu,partition manager,and ubuntu copier critical issue

[Karthick]

Hi,
  I have decided to switch from federo10 to ubuntu .
I have started to install ubuntu.The ubuntu partition manager has asked to define the partition.
I have selected manually and i have removed the logical partition that i have installed federo 10.
The Partition manager asks that removing a partition will delete all the data in it.
I ask th partition manager to format and remove the data also.
then the ubuntu installtion procedure continues.
the ubuntu founds that there are certain linux file in that system and it calculates how many percentage of file it can skip for copying.
I am raising a question that if partition manager removes all the files and deletes the partition and recreates it once again .How could ubuntu finds the existing linux file system?.Even though I knew that the inodes will deleted in a file system and files will be present in that particular location itself as there are too many partition recovery tools are there I hope that ubuntu seems to be proactively finding the removed partition files.
that is not the issue.
the ubuntu then claims that it is removing the conflict files of the other operating system.The ubuntu installation procedure continues.
and the installtion has been over and after rebooting i have received a KERNEL PANIC message.
On analysing this issue in detail I could find that the grub boot loader has been pointed to the old and removed (as partition manager statement)federo core kernel. and I couldn't locate the kernel image.The ubuntu kernel image is found in the second option.
Please correct this issue,by asking ubuntu installer to remove all the existing files in the logical disk and install a fresh copy as we like.Even though ubuntu seems to be increase its installation speed by using the existing files it couldn't do the process properly.
sorry guys for this big passage.
I am trying to improve the open source ubuntu more efficiently.
Think in a part of a nongeek or non technical fellow if he plans to change distro's what will he feel regarding ubuntu when he receives a kernel panic message at installing first time our favourite ubuntu?

Thanks&Regards,
Karthick Selvakumaran.P

[tjagoda (tjagoda)]

Packaged assigned to debian-installer.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

There is no need to tell me how bad the problem is; I can work that out for myself! :-) It sounds like the installation was perhaps only partially completed, but it is not clear.

I do need some very basic information from you which you haven't provided:

  * Which version of Ubuntu were you installing?
  * Did you see the installer's final message indicating that it completed successfully? (It will have looked something like "Installation is complete. You need to restart your computer in order to use the new installation. [etc.]") Alternatively, did you see anything indicating that the installer had crashed?
  * Assuming that you managed to get the system up and running in the end, please attach the files /var/log/installer/syslog and /var/log/installer/partman to this bug report. Those files are critical to let me discover what happened here, and I will be unable to do anything with this bug without those files.

Thanks in advance.

[Karthick (samratselva2009)]

Hi Watson,
I am installing ubuntu 8.10 version.
I have received the message that uduntu installation completed .
I couldn't find anything indicating that the installation has failed.
I have formated my machine once again in windows vista and removed all the
files in ext3
and hence I can't provide you the log files.I am so sorry

Please let me know If you need more Information.
Thanks & Regards,
Karthick Selvakumaran.P

On 1/19/09, Colin Watson <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> There is no need to tell me how bad the problem is; I can work that out
> for myself! :-) It sounds like the installation was perhaps only
> partially completed, but it is not clear.
>
> I do need some very basic information from you which you haven't
> provided:
>
> * Which version of Ubuntu were you installing?
> * Did you see the installer's final message indicating that it completed
> successfully? (It will have looked something like "Installation is complete.
> You need to restart your computer in order to use the new installation.
> [etc.]") Alternatively, did you see anything indicating that the installer
> had crashed?
> * Assuming that you managed to get the system up and running in the end,
> please attach the files /var/log/installer/syslog and
> /var/log/installer/partman to this bug report. Those files are critical to
> let me discover what happened here, and I will be unable to do anything with
> this bug without those files.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: debian-installer => ubiquity
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> booting ubuntu,partition manager,and ubuntu copier critical issue
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/318243
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in "ubiquity" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Hi,
> I have decided to switch from federo10 to ubuntu .
> I have started to install ubuntu.The ubuntu partition manager has asked to
> define the partition.
> I have selected manually and i have removed the logical partition that i
> have installed federo 10.
> The Partition manager asks that removing a partition will delete all the
> data in it.
> I ask th partition manager to format and remove the data also.
> then the ubuntu installtion procedure continues.
> the ubuntu founds that there are certain linux file in that system and it
> calculates how many percentage of file it can skip for copying.
> I am raising a question that if partition manager removes all the files and
> deletes the partition and recreates it once again .How could ubuntu finds
> the existing linux file system?.Even though I knew that the inodes will
> deleted in a file system and files will be present in that particular
> location itself as there are too many partition recovery tools are there I
> hope that ubuntu seems to be proactively finding the removed partition
> files.
> that is not the issue.
> the ubuntu then claims that it is removing the conflict files of the other
> operating system.The ubuntu installation procedure continues.
> and the installtion has been over and after rebooting i have received a
> KERNEL PANIC message...

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears
to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security
issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to
cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy.
Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[xteejx (xteejx)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!