Public bug reported:
I tried installing the ubuntu 8.04 64 bit hardy heron release candidate on a
very recent
macbook pro laptop (Santa Rosa). Two problems, one fatal, the other annoying:
(1) Annoying problem: creating a swap partition blocked installation.
I created two partitions, a ext3 partition mounted on /, and a 2GB
swap partition. The installer happily formated the ext3 partition,
but then gave an error saying it had failed to mount the swap partition
(strange message: you do not mount swap partitions, you activate them).
Both options "go back" and "continue" lead back to the partitioner. I
worked around this by marking the swap partition as unused rather than
swap, with the intention of setting it up by hand once the system was
installed.
(2) Fatal problem: the BIOS could not find a bootable partition.
After the installation completed, the installer tried to reboot the laptop.
However the machine failed to boot, with the BIOS complaining that it
could not find a bootable partition. I played around with parted, setting
bootable flags here and there, but couldn't get it to boot. I worked around
this by installing the 64 bit version of ubuntu 7.10 (which did not have this
booting problem or the swap problem) then upgrading to hardy heron.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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hardy rc install fails to boot on macbook pro
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220219
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