Dapper Drake ubuntu

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Fri Jun 16 08:35:12 UTC 2006


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* Sivan Greenberg:
> This happens to work very well, minus some IMHO minor glitches:
> 1) On my T43p (SATA-PATA bridge, PATA hard drive, preinstalled with
> windows from Lenovo) it b0rked the "Access IBM" functionality from the
> BIOS menu (probably due to the problems mentioned below).
> 2) While the installer was successful in probing for the two Lenovo
> shipped partitions, e.g. the XP Home one and the Recovery and Repair
> partition , something had went wrong either in re-size or grub
> configuration - (the former seems more probable) Choosing to boot the
> Win2000/XP partition (as d-i identified it) to boot the recovery and
> repair system (what seems a heavily patched WinNT 5 by IBM, optimized
> for the purpose of restoring from product recovery CDs and doing other
> maintenance ) will result in it eventually displaying a BSOD , forcing
> you to reboot and choose another target. The installer did manage to
> resize the XP home partition no issues at all.

As I understand it, this has absolutely nothing to do with resizing
whatsoever. There is a workaround posted on the relevant bug report,
although I haven't tested it myself.

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+bug/19634
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