[Bug 577987] Re: Unable to write boot loader to a partition which is not the first one

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[Expired for debian-installer (Ubuntu) because there has been no
activity for 60 days.]

** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  Unable to write boot loader to a partition which is not the first one

Status in “debian-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: debian-installer

  Before the installation of Ubuntu 10.04 I had Refit (boot menu) on the
  first partition and Mac OS X on the second partition of the harddrive.
  About half of the harddrive was unpartitioned. During the installation
  of Ubuntu I manually created a third swap partition and fourth ext4
  partition in the free space. In the last step of the installation
  however I could not choose the fourth partition as the partition to
  write the boot loader to. The OK button was disabled. I then created
  the partitions with the disk utility application from the live cd. Now
  when the partitions already existed I could select the fourth
  partition as the partition to write the boot loader to.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: debian-installer (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sun May  9 22:50:37 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  MachineType: Apple Inc. Macmini3,1
  MemoryUsage:
   total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
   Mem:       1776944    1734152      42792          0      47632    1017164
   -/+ buffers/cache:     669356    1107588
   Swap:      4094376       1364    4093012
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=62482803-f927-4151-adf0-4f9d93c5bdb2 ro quiet splash
  SourcePackage: debian-installer
  dmi.bios.date: 07/17/09
  dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: MM31.88Z.00AD.B00.0907171535
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag#
  dmi.board.name: Mac-F22C86C8
  dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset Tag#
  dmi.chassis.type: 16
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
  dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F22C86C8
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMM31.88Z.00AD.B00.0907171535:bd07/17/09:svnAppleInc.:pnMacmini3,1:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F22C86C8:rvr:cvnAppleInc.:ct16:cvrMac-F22C86C8:
  dmi.product.name: Macmini3,1
  dmi.product.version: 1.0
  dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.

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