[Bug 1994014] Re: Installer crashes if laptop has Windows already installed

[Matej Kovacic]

Sorry, is this a joke??


First of all - have you read I deleted partitions? So I can not reproduce the error, right? Also, running apport will not help if I run it now, when I have Ubuntu already installed.

Yes, I agree, bug reporting is mostly about finding & fixing problems
thus preventing future users from hitting the same bug. Therefore I
provided a working solution!

However, it would be nice if Ubuntu developers would repair this weird
notification with "???". Yes, THIS is a bug.

But on the other hand... I can see there is a lot of bugs unresolved for
several years... So I really do not expect that someone from Ubuntu
would do something. I mean, people are even not reading (so they would
be able to see the solution)!

I just hope that someone with similar error would be able to find this
bug and solve a problem.

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Title:
  Installer crashes if laptop has Windows already installed

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I have Lenovo P14s (AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U with Radeon Graphic, UEFI
  BIOS version was R1MET44W (1.14), but I updated BIOS to R1MET49W
  (1.19)).

  I tried to install Ubuntu Desktop versions: 20.04, 22.04.1 and 22.10
  (and Mint Vanessa).

  All distributions booted just fine and I was even able to see and
  mount Windows partitions.

  Anyway, when I tried to install Ubuntu, I get some really weird error.

  You can see this "pearl" here:
  https://i.ibb.co/GnHxv0t/ubuntu-22-10-install-wtf.jpg

  This happened if I enabled or disabled WiFi and with Slovenian or
  English language pack. After a couple of minutes, crash report is
  shown, informing me that /usr/bin/parted_server crashed.

  
  While the description of error is really informative - it says the problem is "????", the solution is also very clearly described. You just need to "????". Right?

  Fortunately, I have found the solution. I erased Windows completely
  (actually rewrite first part of device /dev/nvme0n1 with zeroes - sudo
  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nvme0n1 bs=16M), and then I was able to
  install Ubuntu.

  I guess there is a problem with partitioner which does not recognize
  one of the Windows partitions... but it should say "OK, there is this
  and this problem, I cannot install Ubuntu alongside Windows, but I can
  delete Windows partitions for you". Or something similar.

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