Public bug reported: Trying to install 14.04 (ISO downloaded from Ubuntu website) in parallel with Ubuntu 13.10.
Before using 14.04 install DVD, I moved lots of large files to a spare external disk, then backed up the home directory to external drive as I usually do regularly. The intention was to shrink 13.10 and install 14.04 in parallel to allow the long process of transition of data before replacing the 13.10 installation with Debian. Booted the DVD & selected install option, but there was no option to shrink the 13.10 installation which covers the whole disk (1TB - Actually 2x 1TB disks in a motherboard hardware RAID 1). Quit out of installation, ran gparted from Live Ubuntu 14.04 and shrunk 13.10 partition to approx 500GB (probably my first mistake!). Rebooted into 13.10 to check it still worked - it booted fine to desktop. Booted DVD again and tried to install 14.04 in the now unallocated space alongside 13.10, but after confirming Copenhagen as where I am, got a dialogue with the helpful message of "?? ??" and jumped back to the start with the only option for a guided installation to erase 13.10. As I have a backup, and I may have made a mistake in shrinking 13.10, I decided to do this. However, all I get is the same "?? ??" and get stuck in a loop. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: ubiquity 2.18.7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CasperVersion: 1.340 Date: Thu May 1 08:16:33 2014 InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417) ProcEnviron: TERM=linux PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SourcePackage: ubiquity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty ubiquity-2.18.7 ubuntu ** Attachment added: "syslog" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314926/+attachment/4102182/+files/syslog -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314926 Title: Install fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1314926/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs