Colin, yes, /dev/sda10 was a bootable live cd image. This is based on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Information/FromLinux which was designed to be able to boot from a hard disk partition and then install.
I boot on a real CD Rom. Somehow, Grub or whoever is doing the boot, switches over to the image on /dev/sda10. The real CD is then interpreted as a package CD instead of the boot CD. Whoever is doing the boot then makes a mount point of /cdom on /dev/sda10, even though that was not the image that was really booted. Manual Install then fails as described in this bug report, since whoever is doing the boot has /dev/sda10 locked. So what, there are no changes to be done to the partition table, and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Information/FromLinux was developed to allow installs. Attached is a gparted image done on the live CD just after the failed manual install. Following that will be an attachment showing what manual install saw. It doesn't see the mount points or the locked partition. I did format /dev/sda10 and was then able to boot from the CD and complete manual install successfully of 20090130 (usual jaunty sound and splash bugs etc.). Thanks for your question. Jerry ** Attachment added: "gparted image from CD Live" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21841336/GPartedpng.jpg -- jaunty Xubuntu Alpha 3 manual install fails https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/318485 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
