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  1. Bug #128668
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 128668

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Fabien Crespel (fabien-crespel) wrote :

This bug still occurs in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron.

In my case, I had a NTFS partition on my second hard drive (on /dev/sdb5) that I wanted to use for Ubuntu.
During the installation I chose manual partition configuration, where I selected the NTFS partition and formatted it with ext3 and / as the mount point.

The installation failed at 94% with "Execution of grub-install (hd0) failed" and grub wouldn't boot.
In fact, the partition type was still 0x7 (NTFS) instead of 0x83, so grub couldn't find the files. I reformatted the partition using openSUSE 10.3, reinstalled and now it works.

So I can confirm the installer still doesn't change the partition type, only the file system. This is quite a major bug, in my opinion.