I do find that very hard to believe. The error checking at that point is if anything rather too careful; I get bug reports about it firing when it shouldn't, so I have difficulty imagining how it could fail to notice a totally broken hard disk. Is it possible that the disk broke only just recently?
-- Installer crash https://launchpad.net/bugs/53358 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
