[Bug 1418706] Re: Vivid: UEFI: blank drive incorrectly detected as existing BIOS-mode install

[Phillip Susi]

I don't think you quite understand the problem Mathieu.  Yes, partman-
efi's init.d script sees the partition as ext3 instead of fat32 because
it has not yet been formatted as fat.  The problem is that the init.d
scripts are supposed to have been run long before partman-auto creates
the new partition in the first place, so it should see *no* partition.

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Title:
  Vivid: UEFI: blank drive incorrectly detected as existing BIOS-mode
  install

Status in partman-auto package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in partman-efi package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  When doing a UEFI-mode install using the latest daily Vivid ISO (Thu
  Feb 5), Ubiquity incorrectly concludes that a blank drive contains an
  existing BIOS-mode install (see error in attached screenshot).

  The resulting error dialog is also broken: none of the buttons do any
  thing when clicked: X (close button), "Go Back", "Continue".

  You can seemingly move the install forward by clicking "Continue" in
  the main installer window, but things are still broken somewhere as
  grub isn't getting correctly installed (system is unbootable after the
  install completes).

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