Over-writing a boot partition fails obscurely

[Jack Wasey]

I attempted to install Dapper over a Breezy install, but not with dist-upgrade. I was moving from amd64 to i386. I had a new root partition, but wanted the same boot partition. I chose NOT to format the boot partition (I wanted to be able to boot into the previous install). This led to the "install base system" step failing half-way through with no explanation. It turned out that it couldn't work out what to do with the old amd64 kernels in /boot. I'm afraid I can't remember the exit messages or problems, and I don't care to repeat the experience.

[Connor Imes (ckimes)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release?

It makes sense that the system wouldn't know what to do with kernels for a different architecture. I'm not sure that's actually a bug. The proper way to allow booting into both systems is to setup a dual boot.

Thanks in advance.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The bug is "fails obscurely", not "fails". I doubt that this has been fixed yet, so setting to Triaged in the hope that people will stop poking this bug.