Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ubiquity
I have Ubuntu Hardy, Win-Vista and Gentoo all on a multi-boot system
using Grub. /boot is a separate small ext2 partition.
When I installed Intrepid Kubuntu Alpha 4 from LiveCD on a separate
(ext3) partition, it completed successfully. But the system wouldn't
boot. The former menu.lst had been wiped out without saving any backup
copy that I could see (but I'm used to Ubuntu installs doing that). The
new entries pointed to initrd.img-2.6.26-5-generic and to
vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic. (There are also symbolic links to these two
files in the root folder.) vmlinuz-2.6.26-5-generic does not exist on
the /boot partition (nor could I find it anywhere else). However, there
is a file vmcoreinfo-2.6.26-5-generic on /boot.
Surely it's not correct to try to boot from vmlinuz and initrd files
mixed from different Ubuntu versions? I tried reinstalling from the
LiveCD again but the same problem. This seems weird. (I could fix up
menu.lst if I could work out where to find a copy of vmlinuz-2.6.26-5 to
copy onto my /boot partition.)
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
--
Intrepid LiveCD installer didn't set up boot files correctly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/262584
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
--
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
