Installer fails if windows on another partition is hibernated
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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debian-installer (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have an Dell Inspiron 1420. I have Windows Vista on my first partition (sda1). I am installing Gutsy on sda2 as / and sda5 as swap. I hibernate vista and go to install gutsy by booting from the cd.
I choose the manual install option. I create a ext3 partition and a swap partition in my spare space on the drive. The NTFS drive is auto-detected and I choose it to be mounted on /windows. I go next next next, fill in all the normal details, and click the install button. The 'preview' of what partitions will be effected does NOT include my windows partition.
It then formats the ext3 partition, puts 800 some odd mb's of files on it, but fails to mount the windows partition.
It gives no reasons why. It then asks me if I want to go back to the partitioner or continue.
This is one part of the bug report, for the message says I can 'Go Back' to the partitioner, or I can 'Continue'. However hitting EITHER button brings me back to the partitioner. Continue does NOT ignore the error and continue the install.
The second part of the issue is that if I abandon the install and restart, its all ready ruined my MBR preventing me from booting Vista and shutting it down properly instead of hibernating.
The installer should check if it can mount the drives which will not be formatted BEFORE formatting and installing its own MBR.
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? Thanks in advance.