[Bug 658970] Re: Installer erases mbr on non-target disk during live disk installation

[albert fishnets]

This bug no longer exist in ubuntu 12.04.

** Changed in: partman-auto
       Status: New => Fix Released

** Changed in: partman-auto
     Assignee: (unassigned) => albert fishnets (mateolingerhaus)

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Title:
  Installer erases mbr on non-target disk during live disk installation

Status in partman-auto:
  Fix Released
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  When installing Ubuntu 10.10 I chose to install manually on /sde
  instead of the default /sda. Installation hung a bit, but was
  otherwise ok. Upon booting into my installation I noticed my drive on
  sda was not shown as mountable. Upon further inspection it was shown
  the drive was being listed as unformatted in gparted and disk utility.
  I found instructions on using Test Disk to recover MBRs on disk and
  used the tool following the tutorial. I was able to fully recover the
  MBR and the data on the disk without difficulty. I'm not sure if the
  partition manager failed here or if it was trying to install the boot
  loader on /sda and failed in that way so I'm not sure what program to
  file the bug against.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: parted 2.3-2ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxSubmission: c6f706b407fa9155748548a12cd5a198
  CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002
  Date: Mon Oct 11 22:55:49 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: parted

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