NewWorld-Boot Partition wrongly selected as root partition (Lubuntu/Ubuntu MATE 16.10)
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Expired
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
On PowerPC Apple machines with mac-partition layout a NewWorld-boot partition is needed, formatted to HFS-filesystem.
Recent Ubiquity can no longer handle this. There is no option to format a partition to HFS. Ubiquity can create a newworld-boot partition (means the boot flag is set corretly), but this partition has no filesystem and its mountpoint is also set to "/" which is wrong. You get no appropriate error message and if continued the install simply stalls infinitely.
As a workaround you need to use gparted first to appropriately create this HFS-formatted newworld-partition.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: ubiquity 16.10.13
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-21-
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7
Architecture: powerpc
CasperVersion: 1.379
Date: Mon Oct 10 09:28:12 2016
InstallCmdLine: ro ramdisk_
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Alpha powerpc (20161008)
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
| ernsteiswuerfel (erhard-f) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| tags: | removed: ubuntu-mate yakkety |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Incomplete → Expired |
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