Installation creates too many partitions

[Kim Prince]

- Installing 11.10 dual boot with Win 7
- Prior to install I already had 3 primary partitions
- Used live CD and selected 'install alongside'
- At completion could not boot into either Win 7 or Ubuntu
- Just booted ito GRUB rescue
- Received extensive support from #ubuntu
- Tried Boot Repair, which hung trying to reinstall GRUB
- When booting from Live CD, could see drives but not navigate them
- Finally ran bootrec /fixmbr to revive windows
- Windows showed 5 partitions, all primary

- Tried reinstalling Ubuntu, this time manually setting the partitions

- Found the only way to successfully do this was specify the swap FIRST, as a logical partition (that way, it can not be automatically made a primary)
- Then allocated remainder to / (which seems to automatically be made primary)

- Now all boots fine

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[YannUbuntu (yannubuntu)]

Hi Kim

I think you had 2 bugs:
- first is that "Windows showed 5 partitions, all primary", because normally a disk can contain only 4 primary partitions.
- second is that GRUB install failed. For other people information, but I add a detail that you told me by email :

> - when I got access to Windows I removed the two partitions that Ubuntu had
> created
> - I then set about reinstalling Ubuntu, however when it came to the
> partitioning choices, I made these manually
> - I asked for a 5Gb swap and a 60Gb / drive
> - the install proceeded to the point where GRUB was installing, then stalled

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