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Skriven 2011-02-11 19:59:31 av Dave Yeo
Ärende: Re: advice on hardware purchase
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Firefox/4.0b11 SeaMonkey/2.1b2pre
comp.os.os2.ecomstation:850 comp.os.os2.misc:2881
From: Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com>

Alex Taylor wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:18:57 UTC, Dave Yeo<dave.r.yeo@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>>>> Everything was fine when I created partitions to install Ubuntu into.
>>>> I was careful to tell Ubuntu not to format yet every disk it touched
>>>> ended up corrupted and all it took was an existing swap partition for
>>>> Ubuntu to touch the drive.
>>>
>>> This may be related: http://bugs.ecomstation.nl/view.php?id=2914
>>
>> Seems that I can't view the bug without an eCS userid.
>
> You don't have one?  Well, most of the same info is available in the
> same user's Ubuntu bug report:
>    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/669459
>
> He also observes that it writes into the Windows partition as well...
>

Yes, that looks like the bug. Surprisingly I did remember my login there 
and added my 2 cents. I don't have much hope for their bug system. When 
I first installed Ubuntu 5 or so years ago, and it installed Grub into 
the MBR I was upset that unlike other distributions, it did not add 
BootManager to the grub/LILO menu even though it was the active 
partition. While I was knowledgeable enough to add BootManager to the 
grub menu, others probably aren't.
They closed the bug as cosmetics.
Dave

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