Hi,
I was planning to dual boot Windows 8 and 13.10 on a friends computer. After installing 13.10 I had a working 13.10 and no windows/grub2 option upon boot. I ran boot-repair and had the options at grub2 to boot Windows and 13.10. Windows worked fine, 13.10 ended up at a purple screen and stopped. So I decided to install 13.10 again (boot-repair had downloaded new kernels which I assumed messed up the graphics).
WHILE RUNNING THE INSTALLER I CLICKED ON "REPLACING EXISTING 13.10 installation", assuming it would do exactly that, leaving the other partitions intact.
I ended up with a computer that boots 13.10 fine, I ran boot-repair to update grub2, I end up with only Ubuntu as a grub2 option. I check gparted and the installer deleted all partition except for the boot and swap.
I think that's pretty bad.
HDD setup after first install of 13.10:
HDD setup after second install of 13.10:
So, is this a bug in the installer or was I foolish to assume that "replace existing 13.10 installation" would leave the Windows 8 partition and recovery partition intact?
I was planning to dual boot Windows 8 and 13.10 on a friends computer. After installing 13.10 I had a working 13.10 and no windows/grub2 option upon boot. I ran boot-repair and had the options at grub2 to boot Windows and 13.10. Windows worked fine, 13.10 ended up at a purple screen and stopped. So I decided to install 13.10 again (boot-repair had downloaded new kernels which I assumed messed up the graphics).
WHILE RUNNING THE INSTALLER I CLICKED ON "REPLACING EXISTING 13.10 installation", assuming it would do exactly that, leaving the other partitions intact.
I ended up with a computer that boots 13.10 fine, I ran boot-repair to update grub2, I end up with only Ubuntu as a grub2 option. I check gparted and the installer deleted all partition except for the boot and swap.
I think that's pretty bad.
HDD setup after first install of 13.10:
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============================ Drive/Partition Info: =============================
Drive: sda _____________________________________________________________________
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System
/dev/sda1 1 976,773,167 976,773,167 ee GPT
GUID Partition Table detected.
Partition Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors System
/dev/sda1 2,048 923,647 921,600 Windows Recovery Environment (Windows)
/dev/sda2 923,648 1,456,127 532,480 EFI System partition
/dev/sda3 1,456,128 1,718,271 262,144 Microsoft Reserved Partition (Windows)
/dev/sda4 1,718,272 939,442,881 937,724,610 Data partition (Windows/Linux)
/dev/sda5 955,070,464 976,773,119 21,702,656 Windows Recovery Environment (Windows)
/dev/sda6 939,444,224 945,373,183 5,928,960 Swap partition (Linux)
/dev/sda7 945,373,184 955,070,463 9,697,280 Data partition (Linux)
Drive: sdb _____________________________________________________________________
Disk /dev/sdb: 16.0 GB, 16008609792 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1946 cylinders, total 31266816 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 32 31,266,815 31,266,784 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
"blkid" output: ________________________________________________________________
Device UUID TYPE LABEL
/dev/loop0 squashfs
/dev/sda1 2E3689F63689BEF9 ntfs System
/dev/sda2 A48B-0AB2 vfat
/dev/sda3 46A88C75A88C6571 ntfs
/dev/sda4 B0188EF6188EBABC ntfs TI10657600C
/dev/sda5 CA9C9DB19C9D9891 ntfs Recovery
/dev/sda6 d9d43936-e86b-4e9c-ac08-1ddb6a7fecdc swap
/dev/sda7 00f78a87-e2ff-4516-8441-4fdc42fe0132 ext4
/dev/sdb1 7C45-54B0 vfat MYLINUXLIVE
================================ Mount points: =================================
Device Mount_Point Type Options
/dev/loop0 /rofs squashfs (ro,noatime)
/dev/sdb1 /cdrom vfat (ro,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
=========================== sda7/boot/grub/grub.cfg: ===========================Code:
============================ Drive/Partition Info: =============================
Drive: sda _____________________________________________________________________
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2,048 969,232,383 969,230,336 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 969,234,430 976,771,071 7,536,642 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 969,234,432 976,771,071 7,536,640 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Drive: sdb _____________________________________________________________________
Disk /dev/sdb: 16.0 GB, 16008609792 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1946 cylinders, total 31266816 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 32 31,266,815 31,266,784 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
"blkid" output: ________________________________________________________________
Device UUID TYPE LABEL
/dev/loop0 squashfs
/dev/sda1 0b636ca3-42e2-463c-b483-02b24ebb7d87 ext4
/dev/sda5 1ad1ed4f-480f-4b9b-bab2-eefb7f5a69e7 swap
/dev/sdb1 7C45-54B0 vfat MYLINUXLIVE
================================ Mount points: =================================
Device Mount_Point Type Options
/dev/loop0 /rofs squashfs (ro,noatime)
/dev/sdb1 /cdrom vfat (ro,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)