The musmula
October 21st, 2013, 06:37 PM
I have encountered a serious bug in the partitioning code of ubuntu 13.10 and maybe elsewhere.
So what happened...
I have downloaded the new ubuntu 13.10 and installed it on my usb (with unetbootin, I know I should have used startup disk creator but it should not make a difference)
Eh, one info: I have had 4 primary partitions on my PC: one for winXP, one for ubuntu system files (/), one for my home folder and one for swap.
Since I had some bad expirience with upgrading from 12.10 to 13.04 (it took it 4h and I had CPU issues (the new installation was using only one core)) I decided to make a clean install wich would be totally safe since I have a seperated /home partition.
In the installation at the part where it asks me to decide do I want to run 13.10 alongside 13.04, erase, something else,... I have chosen "something else" and made sure that it would only format the old ubuntu system partition and install the new edition on it, but to LEAVE EVERYTHING ELSE AS IT IS!
That didnt happen,... After the install I`ve got stuck on the grub rescue so I made a new install this time I`ve chosen "reinstall ubuntu 13.10".
After that I was like, ok everything is fine, lets change the fstab so it uses the other partition as /home
It wiped my pc clean there was no other partition D:<
saucy salamander is as I see it not ready for release since I have encountered a graphical glitch a few seconds ago and it does not wanna boot without usb in port
So what happened...
I have downloaded the new ubuntu 13.10 and installed it on my usb (with unetbootin, I know I should have used startup disk creator but it should not make a difference)
Eh, one info: I have had 4 primary partitions on my PC: one for winXP, one for ubuntu system files (/), one for my home folder and one for swap.
Since I had some bad expirience with upgrading from 12.10 to 13.04 (it took it 4h and I had CPU issues (the new installation was using only one core)) I decided to make a clean install wich would be totally safe since I have a seperated /home partition.
In the installation at the part where it asks me to decide do I want to run 13.10 alongside 13.04, erase, something else,... I have chosen "something else" and made sure that it would only format the old ubuntu system partition and install the new edition on it, but to LEAVE EVERYTHING ELSE AS IT IS!
That didnt happen,... After the install I`ve got stuck on the grub rescue so I made a new install this time I`ve chosen "reinstall ubuntu 13.10".
After that I was like, ok everything is fine, lets change the fstab so it uses the other partition as /home
It wiped my pc clean there was no other partition D:<
saucy salamander is as I see it not ready for release since I have encountered a graphical glitch a few seconds ago and it does not wanna boot without usb in port