10.04 - Installer - unbootable System

[ThorstenK]

- While installing 10.04
- resize ntfs Partition (sda1 in my case)
- choose to little space for installing - eg 500 Meg (was a typo in my case)
- install grub ( markes sda 2 bootable)
- Installer fails to copy packages (no Way back)
- System unbootable.

Workaround:
switch console - use Fdisk to mark SDA1 bottable.

[ThorstenK (thorsten-kani)]

fix::
...The easiest Way to fix this one is providing a way back to the installer if an error occours while copying the packages.
...another one is to require a minimum size while creating the / partition.

Hope that Helps an Happy Hacking!

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

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[ThorstenK (thorsten-kani)]

...happend on 10.04 alpha2 alternate install

[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. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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