Install fails likely caused by a BSD partition.

[Dave Long]

I received errors when installing Lubuntu 11.10 on two different systems both with a BSD partition.
Case 1: Extended partition SDA3 at start of disk with some logical partitions. One of these logicals will hold Lubuntu. SDA1 and SDA2 both primary at the end of the disk holding BSD. I created SDA1 and SDA2 first at the end, after that I created SDA3 using all space left.
During install, it failed and I couldn't boot the system into my new installed Lubuntu. Talking from memory, I think I could still boot into an older Ubuntu install.
I removed both BSD partitions (I was only testing OS-ses so no problem) and the install went perfectly.

Case 2: SDA1 = primary WindowsXP, SDA2 extended, one of the logicals will hold Lubuntu, SDA3 and SDA4 BSD.
Now again I received an error during install but could boot Lubuntu without any problems and couldn't find anything wrong after using it.

I strongly suspect that installing grub fails because of the BSD partitions during install, however when running update-grub from an installed system I get no problems at all though of course the BSD partitions are still skipped. I was able to add them manually by modifying 40_Custom in /etc/grub.

If my guess is correct I suggest trapping the error when it finds a partition it can't handle and just ignore that partition.

Apologies if I'm posting in the wrong location if so could you point me in the right direction.

[Jonathan Marsden (jmarsden)]

This could be a general casper installer bug, not Lubuntu specific?

Do we know if the same thing happens when installing from a Ubuntu 11.10 desktop ISO, rather than an Lubuntu one?

[Dave Long (davelong96)]

I was able to install a regular Ubuntu 11.10 on the first mentioned system without any problems.
Older Ubuntu versions also went without a glitch on systems with BSD partitions.

I don't mind doing a test reinstall of either Ubuntu 11.10 or Lubuntu 11.10 on the 2nd system,
but I'd need some guidance on where to look for logs or other things to report so others can fix the actual bug.

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. If you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
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