Ooh! I haven't tried Windows again yet. Fortunately, all I have to do is restore the MBR from a backup, because I haven't been changing partitioning, just installing onto a pre-existing partition. They really need to get their act together with partitioning - diskDrake was doing this kind of stuff with its eyes shut years ago. Not-invented-here syndrome, perhaps?
Steve On 04/10/06, Torsten Eichstädt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had the same bug. > > The partitioning tool shipped with edgy beta is _definitely_ broken. It > writes wrong (incompatible with at least XP) partition informations onto > the harddisk. > > It broke my system -- I could not boot anymore. Running the XP CD in > rescue mode, issueing "fixboot c:" and "fixmbr" did not help. > I made my system bootable again with the following: > > Supposed workaround: > 1. If you have a dual-boot system Windows/Linux, boot from the Windows CD > and > 2. select the rescue mode (not the "automatic rescue mode that asks you > for a floppy, s/th rarely found nowadays on modern hardware) > 3. Log into your Windows system > 4. Start "diskpart" and alter the partition table, e.g. delete the Linux > partitions (it's garbish, otherwise it wouldn't shred your partition table) > 5. start "fixmbr" > 6. type "exit" to reboot > 7. If that does not help, do the same and in step 5 add "fixboot c:" > 8. Wait for the Ubuntu team to take a crash course on software release > "best practices", i.e. when to call a release alpha, beta or stable, and > what tools _not_ to change from a certain point on. > > > Cheers > > -- > Cannot install grub into root partition > https://launchpad.net/bugs/63869 > -- Cannot install grub into root partition https://launchpad.net/bugs/63869 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
