sutireme
Hi everybody,
We must hurry to test the bug-fix for this very bad bug. In particular, it is important to test it in a real computer running in UEFI mode. So please, if you have the opportunity: time, hardware and a good backup
See the following links (and the final comment by Bruno Nova)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s.../+bug/1265192/
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...2/comments/111
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1265192/comments/122
Last edited by sudodus; January 1st, 2015 at 10:38 PM. Reason: added a link to the bug report itself (not only the comments); ... and a good backup
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Can we try this using vivid daily or do we have to roll back to trusty.iso?
Regards..
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@sudodus
I do not totally understand what Bruno is saying. Does he want us to hard test 14.04.1 (proprosed) only or can I use vivid 15.04?
I am going ahead with 15.04 spin.
Do you have some add on pointers ?
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Ok... got this far (see video). I ran out of memory space on my Nokia. As you can see Ubiquity will not let me resize partition. It recognizes ntfs partitons but not Windows 8 OS. Does it matter?
I will abort install and try 14.04.1 Unity live with proposed.
Please do not mind video quality. It has been long day in polar vortexlol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRWn...ature=youtu.be
Last edited by ventrical; January 2nd, 2015 at 06:02 AM.
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Trusty iso.live
ok... this locked up my Pc .. my bad...
New:
Ok... I used gparted to resize windows8 and create new partition. i am just putting screenshots up so i do no tloose them live:Code:ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install ubiquity Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: aptitude aptitude-common bogl-bterm libboost-iostreams1.54.0 libcwidget3 libdebian-installer4 libept1.4.12 ncurses-term tasksel tasksel-data ubiquity-frontend-debconf ubiquity-frontend-gtk ubiquity-ubuntu-artwork Suggested packages: aptitude-doc-en aptitude-doc debtags libcwidget-dev gnome-control-center feh The following NEW packages will be installed: aptitude aptitude-common bogl-bterm libboost-iostreams1.54.0 libcwidget3 libept1.4.12 ncurses-term tasksel tasksel-data ubiquity-frontend-debconf The following packages will be upgraded: libdebian-installer4 ubiquity ubiquity-frontend-gtk ubiquity-ubuntu-artwork 4 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 492 not upgraded. Need to get 9,117 kB of archives. After this operation, 16.1 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
..and..
Last edited by overdrank; January 2nd, 2015 at 05:14 PM.
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Reviewing Bruno's test case, I did not follow his method to a tee because most PCs come with Windows 8 installed at the factory - so I did all other suggestions he advised. I installed a full version of Windows 8 though using the whole disk. Trusty and 15.04 xubuntu ubiquity (with proposed enabled and the required files updated) would still NOT recognize Windows 8 operating system in UEFI mode on hard install. I consider this a complete fail. This is really bad news... and we have to fix this thing.! Ubuntu trusty is still installing on resized partiton. I'll get back on this.
Ok.. Install complete..
Code:ventrical@ventrical-desktop:~$ sudo update-grub [sudo] password for ventrical: Generating grub configuration file ... Warning: Setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to a non-zero value when GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is set is no longer supported. Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-43-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-43-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-24-generic Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.elf Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin Found Windows 8 (loader) on /dev/sda1 done ventrical@ventrical-desktop:~$
so it detected Windows 8 bootloader. so time now to reboot and see what happens , eh?
Last edited by overdrank; January 2nd, 2015 at 05:15 PM.
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Success!
*note* I had to do this without using the updates that Bruno recommended I used trusty.iso without proposed enabled. Those patches are buggy on hard install.
The trick is in resizing the windows8 partion with gparted then confirming and formatting the new (freespace) to ext4 and confirming again. gparted seems a difficult read about confirming operations to be completed and may confuse some people. After a swapspace is created using standard trusty current ubiquity it will install seamlessly but must:
It is really very simple operation .. not comlicated like many have wrote about .. making special partitons .. etc.. Trusty knew exactly how to install itself and then grab windows8 Bootloader in hard UEFI mode.Code:sudo update-grub
regards.
sutireme
Neither do I, but I guess Ubiquity will be the same version, (backported to 14.04.2).Originally Posted by ventrical
sutireme
Ok.. Install complete..
Code:ventrical@ventrical-desktop:~$ sudo update-grub [sudo] password for ventrical: Generating grub configuration file ... Warning: Setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to a non-zero value when GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is set is no longer supported. Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-43-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-43-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-24-generic Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.elf Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin Found Windows 8 (loader) on /dev/sda1 done ventrical@ventrical-desktop:~$
so it detected Windows 8 bootloader. so time now to reboot and see what happens , eh?Great work, and with a very short notice
Please write a summary (with a reference to this thread) in the bug-report, because I don't think the developers will read our thread here.
(I can write a reference to our thread, but I might misunderstand and write a bad summary.)
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Ahhh... I re-read the bug blog and see the many different problems there with what ubiquity is and is not reporting .. etc.. so I can see now that UEFI is the culprit and not windows 8 detect. I am assuming that UEFI hardware is somehow stealthing the windows 8 operating at the beggining of the detection process (and then subsequently detected by GRuB) so this is very interesting scenario. I think it is simple line of code or script which runs ubiquity or perhaps other.
I will not post this assumption on current bug report until i can see it or prove it.
regards..
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