[Bug 1631895] Re: NewWorld-Boot Partition wrongly selected as root partition (Lubuntu/Ubuntu MATE 16.10)

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

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  NewWorld-Boot Partition wrongly selected as root partition
  (Lubuntu/Ubuntu MATE 16.10)

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  On PowerPC Apple machines with mac-partition layout a NewWorld-boot
  partition is needed, formatted to HFS-filesystem.

  Recent Ubiquity can no longer handle this. There is no option to
  format a partition to HFS. Ubiquity can create a newworld-boot
  partition (means the boot flag is set corretly), but this partition
  has no filesystem and its mountpoint is also set to "/" which is
  wrong. You get no appropriate error message and if continued the
  install simply stalls infinitely.

  As a workaround you need to use gparted first to appropriately create
  this HFS-formatted newworld-partition.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
  Package: ubiquity 16.10.13
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-21.23-powerpc-smp 4.8.0
  Uname: Linux 4.8.0-21-powerpc-smp ppc
  ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: powerpc
  CasperVersion: 1.379
  Date: Mon Oct 10 09:28:12 2016
  InstallCmdLine: ro ramdisk_size=1048576 file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-mate.seed boot=casper quiet splash --- radeon.agpmode=-1
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Alpha powerpc (20161008)
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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