Comment 29 for bug 669076

I do not see a classification of "solved" or I would have changed it to that. I still consider what I went through, a bug in the program, and I will try to explain why. Final determination: "The install package does not correctly setup the hard drive, even when making the selection to use the entire drive." I cannot begin to tell you how many attempts at installing I went through; but tracing the history of this bug report will give an indication of how long it has taken me. If I had recorded yesterdays event I could at least accurately describe in the documentation to new users, which I am one, how to manually go through the steps of 'prepping' the hard drive. The clue was in the boot process when it continually displayed "Please append a correct 'root=' option and made comment to there not being a legit file system. So yesterday, the big eve, I had Ubuntu check my drive for errors, it took the entire day. I then formatted the drive and chose a '/' as the mount point. I have no idea if that is the correct choice, there is no help provided in that area as to what to chose and the difference in the choices. Long story short, it is installed and I am recording these comments from within Ubuntu. So it was the hard drive setup that caused all my problems.