[Bug 774144] Re: 11.04 Desktop CD installation fails with a FreeBSD partition

[Dave Gilbert]

Hi Ahavatar,
  Thanks - well I've just tried to do this and, well I've got a VM that doesn't boot; however
the /boot does have a grub.cfg and a kernel and initrd.

I suspect my problems here may have been the interaction of different partition table formats etc but not quite hit
the same case as you.

Can you give me some suggestions as a sane partition setup that you
would expect to work?

I went with all the defaults on a FreeBSD 9 install (I've not done BSD for a long long time) and left space and a partition
on the disk; that had a GPT partition table.

Dave

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Title:
  11.04 Desktop CD installation fails with a FreeBSD partition

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  The Desktop CD installation had been working fine on my machine past
  couple of years. But from 11.04, it fails to install Grub2
  successfully.

  When it tries to mount a FreeBSD partition, it fails (of course it
  can't mount a FreeBSD partition) and quits installation without
  finishing the installation, leaving the PC unbootable.

  If I inspect the root partition of the failed installation, /boot
  directory has not an initrd image nor grub subdirectory nor grub.cfg.

  I solved this problem by downloading the altenative CD, and it
  installs 11.04 without any problem. When it can't mount a FreeBSD
  partition, it just ignores it and proceeds to finish the installation.

  I do not know what has been changed in the 11.04 Desktop CD from 10.10
  or previous releases, but please fix this regression bug.

  Thanks.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: ubiquity (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Apr 30 23:08:23 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110426)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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