[Bug 1259701] Re: 14.04 installer does not detect Windows 8.1

[Heiko Selber]

I can confirm the bug with Ubuntu 13.10 on a Dell Inspiron 3721.

It had Windows 8 pre-Installed, to which I had added Ubuntu 13.04 on a
second partition. I had disabled UEFI and secure boot, because I hadn't
managed to install Ubuntu with UEFI active back then.

When Windows was later updated to 8.1, the updater tacitly removed the
grub bootloader, so I couldn't boot into Ubuntu any more. To fix that I
chose to install 13.10 freshly.

The installer offered me to update 13.04, or to completely replace 13.04
or to do something else. Under 'something else' there was no mention of
Windows IIRC. When I chose to completely replace Ubuntu, the HD was
newly partitioned, so both the windows and Linux partitions were
scrapped and replaced by one large partition that filled the entire HD
(and a small swap partition).

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Title:
  14.04 installer does not detect Windows 8.1

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Just tried using 14.04 daily build (10th Dec) on HP Pavilion
  Touchsmart 11. (Aside note: This is the first build since 12.04 that
  actually runs on this PC - previous releases lock up with a black
  screen or terminal login prompt that doesn't run anything).

  The installer starts, but does not detect that Windows 8.1 is already
  installed on the PC.

  I was hoping to install 14.04 alongside Windows - I'll scrub Windows
  when the full LTS is released, but until then I need to keep it.

  I did not proceed with the install as I wasn't confident that I'd mess
  up the partitioning and end up without an OS.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.17.0
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.12.0-7.15-generic 3.12.4
  Uname: Linux 3.12.0-7-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.336ubuntu1
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Tue Dec 10 20:56:42 2013
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash --
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20131210)
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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