Ubuntu
grub-installer package

  1. Lucid (10.04)
  2. Bug #568050
  3. Comment #114

Comment 114 for bug 568050

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Herbert Roitblat (herb-orcatec) wrote :

I decided to dump the RAID and the Windows 7 and just start from scratch. I tried 9.10, but could not get it to boot. I am still having problems with 10.04 as well, but here is one issue.

When I look at the disk utility, it reports that I have a 750 GB ATA drive on Port 1 of PATA Host adapter, and a 750 GB ATA drive on Port 2 of PATA Host adapter.

Then under Peripheral Devices, I have a 699 MB File (filesystem.squashfs), which I infer is my LiveCD and a 750 GB Hard Disk. If I try to delete this partition, it says One or more block devices are holding /dev/mapper/isw_bifgdfbbc_Volume0 and it won't let me delete the partition.

GParted, reports that I have unallocated /dev/sda of 698.64 GiB. Where is the rest of it? And the same thing for /dev/sdb. They both say unallocated. How can there be a partition, which I cannot delete on a drive that is unallocated? Where are the other 51.36 GB? Why do I have this peripheral 750 GB Hard Disk? Why not two of them?

How do I wipe out everything and start with a clean slate and just install some version of Ubuntu?

Thanks,
Herb