6.10 Installer refuses due to xfs
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Colin Watson |
Bug Description
I have tried installing Xubuntu and Ubuntu (both @ 6.10).
/boot of either ext2 or ext3
All others xfs, but swap of course
It will not continue installing, grumbling that root can not be xfs... but that is exactly why I made /boot ext3!
With the Xubuntu installer: Thinking it might be ext2 related, I wipe the disk and repartitioned with ext3 as /boot. xfs still is on the /boot partition, but now ext3 is on the / partition! ;-)
With the Ubuntu installer, I was trying to install over Ubuntu 5.10, so I had all partitions in place - just matched up the previous mount points. /boot was ext3 in my Ubuntu 5.10 install, so I as well left that as-was. Also refused to install.
All was well with Ubuntu 5.10 - but that was a text mode installer, so probably getting bit by a new bug in the GUI installer.
Changed in ubiquity: | |
assignee: | nobody → kamion |
Clarification:
Xubuntu 6.10 I was installing on a clean HDD. First selected ext2 for /boot. Upon finishing the partition setup, all partitions were xfs, including /boot. Later when I blew all the partitions away and selected ext3 for boot, then / was ext3 but /boot was still incorrectly xfs. Thus thought the installer complaining with /boot being xfs was a valid complaint, just we had not specified /boot be xfs.
Ubuntu 6.10 was tried on another machine, with existing Ubuntu 5.10 on it, thus no repartitioning was done. /boot was/is ext3, so even with non-xfs on /boot, the installer refuses to install.