[Bug 528073] Re: os-prober hangs on /usr/lib/os-probes/50mounted-tests on /dev/sda2 and sda2 not present

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:10:47PM -0000, Jeff Lane wrote:
> Personally, I really do NOT like the use of extended partitions in
> default partitioning schemes.  There's really no reason at all for the
> defaut partition scheme to look like this.  I could see it for a custom
> scheme that involved more than 4 partitions, but for this, no.

Using logical partitions wherever possible is much friendlier to
multi-boot systems, and in general puts much less stress on partitioning
algorithms that have to cope with the deficient but pervasive MS-DOS
partition table format.  Since Ubuntu occasionally suffers from
installation problems on systems that already had four primary
partitions in place (or indeed, on some older BIOSes, three primary
partitions), it behooves us not to contribute to this situation
ourselves.

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os-prober hangs on /usr/lib/os-probes/50mounted-tests on /dev/sda2 and sda2 not present
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